Business Disputes

Our team explains the process around insolvency, looking at transactions at an undervalue, looking at case examples where this might happen and what happens if transactions at an undervalue are discovered.

If the debt is not commercial rent arrears, the emergency ban on issuing Winding Up Petitions will end on 30 September 2021.

The Government intends to gradually return the Notice periods that must be given to residential Tenants to pre-pandemic time scales.

The embargo on evicting commercial tenants who have failed to pay their rent has now been extended to 25 March 2022.

Many buyers and sellers hoping to complete their transactions before the stamp duty rules change at the end of June.

A press release has been issued about Residential Landlords trying to recover possession of properties from their tenants.

Commercial landlords are facing tenants who have not paid rent for some time and who have sought to hide behind COVID regulations.

A claim can be “time-barred” if the claimant fails to bring the action before the Court within a specified time period.

The term ‘battle of the forms’ is where businesses enter into a contractual agreement and attempt to incorporate their own standard terms.

Frequently disputes occur regarding deposits and whether they are refundable if a purchase does not complete for whatever reason.