As a business owner, when you are faced with a dispute with a company or individual you have various options to settle the matter. Joshua guides businesses (and also individuals) through complex disputes, aiming to resolve them in the most cost-effective way for clients.
How to resolve a dispute
Joshua is known for his pro-active approach, encouraging matters to settle early in the process rather than entering into a long and protracted legal process (which is great for lawyers who just want to charge as much as possible). Fortunately, this is not how HM3 Legal works. Minimising the time taken to resolve a dispute = minimising legal costs for the client.
Also, by working closely with clients in a flexible and personal way Joshua is able to manage matters more efficiently – which may mean considering mediation instead of allowing a seemingly small conflict to run away, allowing costly litigation to become the outcome.
Contacting Joshua as soon as a disagreement begins to surface can vastly reduce the effect of a business dispute; litigation is often avoidable when you bring the right legal team in on early discussions. Joshua’s early intervention has saved or retrieved HM3’s clients hundreds of thousands of pounds of potential legal costs and damages.
Looking to resolve a company dispute?
The majority of Joshua’s clients are company owners and directors looking to settle a dispute early, before costs spiral and the time spent in-house trying to solve the matter escalates. Here are seven situations where Joshua’s expertise can have a particular impact:
- Resolving a situation involving a breach of contract with a commercial property lease.
- A dispute where there are grounds for rejecting a contract.
- Addressing loan agreements / settlement agreements particularly relating to transferring company shares.
- Disputes involving invoices which can include challenging costs for goods or services provided.
- Resolving situations due to poorly drafted contracts or terms and conditions which is compromising the company position with a third-party provider.
- Halting potential reputational damage or the leaking of confidential information due to rogue or disgruntled former employees breaching their contractual restrictive covenants.
- Stepping in during a breakdown in business relationships; one dispute between a recruitment agency and an ex-employee who was approaching a company’s competitors escalated into injunctive proceedings.
Troubleshooting a commercial dispute
Commercial disputes can be incredibly stressful. For some businesses or individuals, their chosen route is to act as their own legal representative (litigate in person) rather than seeking advice from a solicitor. Unless you have the necessary experience, the team at HM3 Legal knows this can create more costly problems down the track. Joshua has been directly involved in picking up the pieces in such situations which have turned out to be a false economy, eventually costing more money and time as legal complications needed to be unravelled before the situation could move forward.
If a disagreement within your company or with a third party is not going away, contact Joshua before the circumstance develops into a time-consuming and costly dispute. Our well-regarded and experienced team of litigators can assist with complex, multi-party disputes across diverse industries.
Our team is adept at stepping out of their comfort zone, using their combined expertise to assist with even the most obscure areas of commercial litigation. If you are unsure whether we can help, having a free no-obligation conversation with our team will provide you with the answer.
