Rated as a Top Tier (Band 1) Firm in Corporate & Commercial Litigation for disputes up to £250 million, CANDEY is frequently in the High Court and appellate Courts.

Every business requires smart, commercial and timely litigation advice. Business leaders require an experienced team with whom they can work in partnership to win. We aim to predict judicial outcomes and strategise to achieve a client’s commercial goals. Businesses can be won and lost in litigation, with everyone subject to the power of the judicial shield and sword.  

Securities litigation, joint venture, private equity and minority shareholder disputes are the key areas of our commercial litigation practice. Often commercial litigation comes hand in hand with insolvency advice and procedures, such as the appointment of provisional liquidators or Court appointed receivers over your opponent. Applications for freezing injunctions, security for costs and anti-suit injunctions are part of of our everyday work.

Cases in which we have appeared are the leading reported authorities in these areas and are widely cited.

We move quickly and can provide a 24/7 global service. Our global reach ensures that we can provide an international response, with dual qualified lawyers from the US, BVI and India. We believe in a no-nonsense approach, to obtain fast and effective justice for our clients through clear, concise and effective persuasion. There are times that matters are not clear cut. Sometimes the existing law is wrong, and we will seek to challenge it. We think that because of our commercial nous we are better placed than most other law firms to understand the basis of laws, why they exist, and what they seek to protect.

We offer courage and ambition to our clients to prosecute their claims or robustly defend their position, at the same time always appraising them of risk and opportunity. Unlike other lawyers we do not allow a lawyer’s lack of appetite for risk to infect the legal and commercial strategy. Judges conversely do not share that cautious approach as their job is to deliver justice as opposed to simply sitting on the fence. Our chief job is to harness that judicial power for our clients.

We aim to use our commercial nous and academic understanding to work in partnership with the judiciary and our clients to guide them to the right result. We are strategic and tactical but we do not play games. We fight aggressively to protect and advance our clients’ rights but we believe in being polite and courteous to our legal opponents, who we often know very well.