Who we’ve helped

Examples of our recent work in the field of Debt Recovery and beyond

• Rejected a luxury car for a businessman and consumer where it was unclear if the faults were ‘bad’ enough to allow rejection. Compensation for inconvenience paid on top of £120,000 repayment of purchase price;

• Settled a financial claim (five figures) for a pension fund against a financial adviser for advising the client to enter an investment that was totally inappropriate for a pension scheme;

• Defended a homeowner against eviction that also allowed her time to sell her family home;

• Pursued and defended claims for a commercial client against a well-known lender in respect of complex financial products and loans (total value of claims over £1 million)

• Obtained multiple HMO Licences (residential leases) worth £250,000 pa in rent for a landlord who had previously rented properties in breach of legislation but had ‘served his time’

• Pursued an accountant for negligence for failure to submit tax returns over 5 years (very significant settlement figure secured)

• Pursued a PLC for a sub-contractor for a final payment (£180,000) in respect of works on a well-known hotel.

• Defended an engineering company against a claim for breach of contract and negligence in testing Oil and Gas equipment;

• Rejected a piece of tooling equipment that was not fit for specified work;

• Rejected a high value kitchen for a higher net worth client;

• Defended an accountant against disciplinary action pursued by his regulator; complaint against him dropped;

• Defended enforcement action taken by trading standards against a home improvement company where the local authority could not prove that the company’s actions infringed consumer rights;

• Pursued a company on behalf of former shareholder for dividends that should have been paid to him but were paid to the managing director alone instead (five figure settlement figure). 

• Pursued various main contractors and customers on behalf of the Administrator of Company where very little paperwork and debts were over 1 year old. Secured payment of £150,000 out of £180,000.

• Defended a commercial tenant in an action where the tenant argued they had  waived a clause in a commercial lease (Windfarm) that would otherwise entitle the Landlord to evict them for non-payment of rent  (total value of claims circa £2million)

• Defended alleged Guarantor in action for payment of rent in a commercial lease court action

• Acted for a Liquidator in pursuing sums due to an insolvent company by other group companies;

• Secured payment of recruitment agent/agency fees for a London client against well-known main contractor.