Commercial litigation

Ashurst is recognised as having a leading commercial litigation practice across Europe. Commercial disputes are at the heart of our litigation practice, and over the years we have acted for many leading international companies in complex disputes across all industry sectors. We have specialist litigators operating out of all our European offices.

We have acted in matters in the following fields:

  • mergers and acquisitions: disputes relating to public and private deals;
  • equity capital markets: disputes arising from IPOs and other offerings;
  • joint ventures: disputes arising from shareholder agreements and deadlocked joint venture companies;
  • professional negligence: accounting, banking, tax, legal and surveying negligence cases;
  • commercial: insurance, sale of goods, pensions and employment disputes;
  • technology, media and telecommunications: all contentious contractual and regulatory matters;
  • shareholder claims: requisitions for the removal of directors and unfair prejudice petitions;
  • public and administrative: judicial review; and
  • tax: tax-related litigation and tribunal work.