Director, Shareholder and Partnership Disputes
Edwin Coe has successfully acted for shareholders, directors and partners in intra-business disputes, such as those relating to the limited and public companies and general and limited liability partnerships.
We draw on our allied specialists in employment, tax and insolvency law to bring these disputes to a resolution.
- Shareholders
Acting for shareholders, whether in publicly traded and privately held companies, in litigation against either the company itself, its directors and officers, and other shareholders, including for schemes of arrangement pursued by the company and breach of shareholder agreements or other constituting documents of the company.
- Securities Claims
Representing institutional and individual investors in litigation arising from misrepresentations to the market, misleading prospectuses, regulatory breaches, and securities fraud, whether under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 or common law.
- Director’s Liability
Pursuing directors (or those who have assumed the powers of directors) for breaches of their duties, including fiduciary obligations and duties in negligence, to either the company or to particular shareholders.
- Partnership Disputes
Acting for partners, whether in general or limited liability partnerships, including regarding the assets of the partnership on departure of one or more partners.
- Derivative actions
Acting for particular shareholders who wish to pursue a claim on behalf of the company where the company’s directors refuse to take it forward.
- Tracing business assets
Following assets which have been wrongfully taken from a company, whether by its directors or other insiders.
