Litigation & Dispute Resolution Belfast: Experience

• Volkswagen on the NI element of the international product liability matter regarding emissions allegations.
• SGN in the defence of High Court proceedings brought by 3 landowners in connection with the “Gas to the West” project.
• An international retailer in High Court proceedings involving allegations of passing off, copyright and trademark infringement.
• A significant property developer in High Court proceedings seeking an injunction in respect of various large scale development sites in Northern Ireland.
• A multinational technology company in relation to a challenge to the jurisdiction of the courts of Northern Ireland to hear claims relating to privacy, data protection and defamation.
• A group of companies in respect of a multi-jurisdictional dispute concerning interpretation of an indemnity in a share purchase agreement.
• A bank in the defence of High Court proceedings commenced by a group of borrowers in relation to an interest rate hedging arrangement.
• Clinishare Limited, a medical software company, in the defence of proceedings that were issued by a shareholder to restrain the company and the other shareholders from exercising their rights under a shareholders agreement to divest the shareholder of his shares.
• An insurance brokerage firm in the defence of High Court proceedings arising out of the construction of a £150m critical care unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
• A specialist supplier of concrete products in the defence of High Court proceedings following issues related to a £37m redevelopment in Guernsey.
• A global pharmaceutical company in a claim arising out of failings in the design and manufacture of specialist machinery.
• A significant group of shareholders in a high value High Court action against former Directors and another Company.
• The employer in an ICC arbitration of a multi-million pound dispute with the main contractor arising out of the design and construction of a sub-sea interconnector.
• An online shipping company in High Court proceedings arising out of trade mark infringement and malicious falsehood and breaches of the Comparative Advertising Directive in keyword advertising.
• A global pharmaceutical company on the procedural aspects of the taking of evidence in Northern Ireland for use in foreign proceedings.
• A multinational bank on a large data breach which required an urgent ex parte application to the High Court for immediate injunctive relief.
• The Sun newspaper in the defence of proceedings brought in the Northern Ireland High Court by a firm of solicitors for defamation, misuse of private information and breach of copyright.