Shareholder Disputes Solicitors
We unlock potentially harmful shareholder disputes, protecting your business
Healthy relationships between shareholders and directors are vital to business success. Where disagreement arises between company shareholders or between minority shareholders and directors it can give rise to a major distraction from the running of the business, which is not in anyone’s interest.
Our highly experienced, specialist Dispute Resolution team has a strong track record of dealing with shareholder disputes and unfair prejudice claims by disgruntled minority shareholders. We have acted in such matters for the minority shareholders, the company’s directors, and for the company itself (which is often separately represented in such matters). We take time to understand the background to the dispute so that we can tailor our advice to your particular circumstances. We can then advise, clearly and succinctly on your options and you can make an informed decision as to how best to proceed.
Many of our clients elect to use Alternative Dispute Resolution, typically mediation, to come to an agreement at an early stage to avoid litigation. Sometimes it becomes necessary to resort to litigation to achieve the right outcome. That may be an order that your shares are bought out at a fair price or orders to ensure the proper management of the company so as to protect the value of your shares.
We aim to resolve disputes as swiftly and effectively as possible in order to minimise the commercial impact on your business.
If the dispute does come to court, we will represent you robustly and tenaciously. That might mean:
- Petitioning for the equitable winding up of the company
- Issuing an unfair prejudice or minority shareholders’ petition
- Initiating a derivative action to allow shareholders to sue directors on the company’s behalf
- Defending claims (or threatened claims) of the above kind on behalf of a company’s senior managers.
