Practice Areas
A full service legal practice, anchored in the courtroom.
Litigation and dispute resolution sit at the core of our identity. Around that core, we advise on insolvency, criminal law, and the corporate and commercial matters most likely to end up in a dispute.
Litigation & Court Advocacy
Litigation is the discipline the firm was built around. When a matter is contested, timelines are tight, and outcomes carry real commercial or personal consequence, our clients need advocates who are equally comfortable drafting the pleading and standing up to argue it. We take a trial ready posture on every matter we accept, not because every matter should go to trial, but because a firm that is not prepared to try a case has no real leverage in the room where it is being settled instead.
- Civil and commercial litigation before trial courts, High Courts, and appellate forums
- Contractual and shareholder disputes
- Real estate, property, and title litigation
- Recovery actions, enforcement, and execution proceedings
- Constitutional and writ petitions
- Injunctions and urgent interim relief
Dispute Resolution
Not every dispute needs to be public, prolonged, or adversarial to be resolved properly. Where a contract provides for arbitration, or where mediation offers a faster and more commercially sensible route, we represent clients through it with the same rigour we bring to a courtroom, and we advise clients before a dispute exists on how to structure a negotiation so it has a real chance of closing without escalation.
- Domestic institutional and ad hoc arbitration
- Contract and commercial mediation
- Enforcement and challenge of arbitral awards
- Pre-dispute negotiation strategy and settlement structuring
- Drafting and review of dispute resolution clauses
Insolvency & Bankruptcy
Insolvency proceedings move fast, involve multiple stakeholders with competing interests, and rarely forgive a slow or poorly briefed advisor. We represent both creditors seeking recovery and companies navigating restructuring, bringing the same litigation discipline to insolvency forums that we bring to a contested trial. Clients who engage us early, before a resolution professional is appointed, consistently end up with a stronger position.
- Corporate insolvency resolution proceedings
- Creditor representation and recovery
- Restructuring advisory
- Liquidation proceedings
- Personal guarantee enforcement
- Committee of creditors representation
Criminal Law
A criminal matter, whether the client is facing an allegation or bringing one, moves on a timeline that does not wait for anyone to be ready. Bail applications, custody proceedings, and trial dates carry consequences measured in liberty, not just money. We represent both defendants and complainants across criminal trial and appellate courts, and we treat every criminal engagement with the urgency it actually requires.
- Bail and anticipatory bail applications
- Criminal trial defence
- Complainant representation
- White collar and economic offences
- Criminal appeals and revisions
- Quashing petitions
Corporate & Commercial Advisory
Most disputes are written into existence long before they are filed, in a contract clause that was never stress tested, a governance gap, or a commercial arrangement that assumed goodwill would do the work that documentation should have done. Our corporate and commercial practice is deliberately not a transactional M&A, private equity, or venture capital practice. It is built for businesses that want dispute resistant documentation and governance from advisors who know exactly how these arrangements fail in litigation, because we are the ones who handle it when they do.
- Commercial contract drafting, review, and negotiation
- Corporate governance and compliance advisory
- Vendor, distribution, and partnership agreements
- Employment and service agreements
- General counsel style retained advisory for growing businesses
Our Method
We do not default to litigation. We diagnose, then decide.
Step 01
Assess the position
We give clients an honest read of the facts, the law, and the realistic range of outcomes, before recommending anything.
Step 02
Choose the instrument
Litigation, arbitration, mediation, or direct negotiation, selected on cost, speed, and the client's actual objective.
Step 03
Execute with accountability
A named partner owns the matter throughout, with regular, plain language updates on progress and risk.
Not sure which of these fits your situation?
That is the first thing we will help you work out. Most engagements begin with a conversation, not a retainer.