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Dispute Resolution

Dispute Resolution is a core strength of Collas Crill. Our approach to contentious matters is hands-on, cost-effective and commercial. Our expertise and reputation means we're first choice for a range of clients, including banks, trust companies, high net worth private individuals and top law firms.

Whether our client is based locally or internationally, they want to know they're in expert hands, that we will take a practical approach and our approach will be tailored to the client's interests. Client and industry feedback shows that we meet these needs, being considered 'a safe pair of hands all round' in Legal 500 and a 'highly skilled and cost-effective team' by Chambers and Partners 2011.

We specialise in top-flight commercial dispute resolution and litigation matters, including:

• Financial and banking litigation
• Tracing actions, asset freezing, disclosure orders and other pre-trial remedies
• International debt recovery, reciprocal enforcement of judgments and obtaining evidence for the purpose of foreign proceedings
• Fraud and anti-money laundering
• Trust and estate disputes, and contentious probate
• Professional negligence
• Insurance and reinsurance
• Contractual disputes
• Company law including disputes between shareholders and directors
• Telecommunications, e-commerce, intellectual property disputes
• Insolvency and restructuring
• ADR including mediation, arbitration and expert determination

Our core activity is complemented by some niche specialisms including family law, personal injury and clinical negligence, and employment.

Our priority is always to resolve disputes in the most effective way for clients, whether by way of litigation or by arbitration, mediation or another form of alternative dispute resolution.  Where litigation is unavoidable, we focus on working towards our client's commercial objectives while assessing the inherent legal, commercial and reputational risks.

We are actively involved in many of the headline cases in the Channel Islands, notably advising the first defendant in the complex Alhamrani trust case - the largest piece of litigation ever seen in Jersey - and acting for Deloitte as the joint administrators of Landsbanki Guernsey on the first administration order since the new Companies Law 2008, a major cross-border case.

To us, teamwork is key and our Dispute Resolution specialists work closely with our Corporate and Banking and Finance practices to advise on restructuring, recovery and insolvency matters.