Dispute Resolution

Rosenblatt is a trusted partner for both corporate, family offices and individual clients, who seek the team’s decisive solutions to complex commercial disputes.  The firm is intensely centred around dispute resolution and has earned a stellar international reputation for its achievements in litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.

Known for its ability to guide clients towards favourable outcomes, Rosenblatt combines expertise, persistence, and innovative thinking to tackle challenging legal issues while maintaining a focus on the commercial objectives of its clients.  The team acts swiftly to identify the root cause of disputes and devise cost-effective strategies for resolution.

Our dispute resolution experts bring extensive experience across industries and jurisdictions, including insolvency and business recovery, with active involvement in Insol Europe and R3. Some team members are solicitor-advocates qualified to represent clients in higher courts.

Rosenblatt's global reach spans jurisdictions including offshore territories (Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Caribbean), North America, China (including a partner who is admitted to practice in Hong Kong), India, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and West Africa. The team has implemented measures such as freezing orders, search and seizure orders, injunctions, and Norwich Pharmacal orders for clients.

To address litigation funding challenges, Rosenblatt offers tailored fee arrangements, third-party funding options, claim acquisitions, and After the Event (ATE) insurance solutions.

Sectors and areas covered

• Arbitration (international and domestic)

• Banking and Financial Services

• Civil Fraud

• Commercial litigation

• Company Litigation, including Contentious insolvency, Corporate & Regulatory Investigations

• Defamation

• Financial Crime

• Group litigation commercial and financial claims

• Insurance

• Intellectual Estate Protection

• Judicial Review

• Jurisdiction and Conflict of Laws

• Media

• Mediation

• Professional Liability

• Professional Negligence

• Restitution

• Shareholder Disputes and Directors Duties and Obligations

• Unlawful Competitive Practices and Economic Torts

High-profile cases

1. Advising a Defendant in a multi-billion pound claim brought by the Danish Tax Authority in relation to dividend withholding tax reclaims. 

2. Advising Stobart Group Limited and its former directors in all aspects of its dispute with its former Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Tinkler, including advising the Company in relation to a hostile general meeting and attempt to remove the Chairman, advising on the termination and removal of an errant executive director and dealing the litigation which culminated in an expedited trial to determine liability.  The court found that the Defendant had been lawfully dismissed and removed as a director, in a judgment which considered the responsibilities of directors in their interactions with the board and with shareholders. Stobart Group Ltd v Tinkler [2019] EWHC 258 (Comm).  Mr Tinkler unsuccessfully subsequently tried to have that judgment set aside for fraud [2022] EWHC 1375 (Ch), [2023] EWCA Civ 655.  The action was ultimately concluded when the Court struck out all of the remaining claims as an abuse of process [2024] EWHC 1490 (Ch).

    

   A sample of some of the team’s cases appearing in law reports or subject to media attention:

   • CRF 1 Limited v Banco Nacional du Cuba [2024] EWCA CIV 1409, [2023] EWHC 774 (Comm)

   • MCML Limited (Formerly ED&F Man Capital Markets Limited) & Anor, R (on the application of) v Southwark Crown Court [2024] EWHC 861 (Admin)

   • Skatteforvaltningen v MCML Limited

   • Verdi Law Group P.C. v BNP Paribas S.A. & Ors

   • Adam Robert Giaquinto & Ors v ITI Capital Ltd [2023] EWHC 2467 (KB)

   • STOBART CAPITAL LIMITED v ESKEN LIMITED [2022] EWHC 1036 (Ch)

   • Gregor Fisken Ltd v Carl (Rev 1) [2021] EWCA Civ 792

   • Bott & Co Solicitors Ltd v Ryanair DAC

   • Signia Wealth Ltd v Vector Trustees Ltd & Ors [2018] EWHC 1040 (Ch)

   • In The Matter OF TPD Investments Ltd Sub Nom Destiny Investments (1993) Ltd V TH Holdings Ltd

   • (1) Capital For Enterprise Fund A LP (2) Maven Capital Partners UK LLP v Bibby Financial Services Ltd [2015] EWHC 2593 (Ch)

   • Icebreaker Management Services and others (x 5 LLPs) v Deloitte

   • Mr Timothy Wright v Lewis Silkin LLP [2015] EWHC 1897 (QB)

   • Desmond v CSI International Limited and GLG Partners LP

   • Global Energy Horizons Corp v Gray [2012] EWHC 3703 (Ch), [2015] EWHC 2232 (Ch)

   • Aberdeen Global v Satyam Computer Services Ltd (Case Number 2011 folio 1581)

   • (1) Clinton Cards PLC (2) CCE Realisations Ltd V (1) Donald John Lewin (2) Clinton Stuart Lewin (3) Rose Margaret Lewin

   • Tullett Prebon Plc & Ors v BGC Brokers LP & Ors [2010] EWHC 484 (QB), [2011] EWCA Civ 131

   • The Leveson Inquiry

   • Camelot UK Lotteries Ltd, R (on the application of) v The Gambling Commission & Ors [2012] EWHC 2391 (Admin) (22 August 2012) [2012] EWHC 2391 (Admin)

   • Lalit Modi v Giles Clarke and IMG v Giles Clarke

   • Continental Capital Markets SA v GFI Holdings Ltd and Ors (Case No 2011 folio 1424)

   • Tullett Prebon Group Limited v Ghaleb El-Hajjali [2008] EWHC 1924 (QB)

   • Music Choice Limited various trade mark (UK and CTM) disputes with Target Brands Inc, including Invalidation Action Nos 81859 and 81860

   • Seymour Pierce Limited v Grandtop Holdings [2010] EWHC 676 (QB)

   • Cobden Investments Limited v RWM Langport Limited and others [2008] EWHC 2810 (Ch), [2009] EWHC 1362 (Ch), [2010] EWHC 3334 (Ch) and [2011] EWHC 1370 (Ch)

   • Advantage Capital Limited and others v Adair [2010] EWHC 2841 (QB)

   • Tartan Limited v The Royal Bank of Scotland plc