Disputes and Litigation Support

E-Valuate Partners consultants also provide disputes and litigation support to a number of businesses. These services include supporting all pre-issue disputes activities (including mediation) together with support for contractual drafting, interpretation, risk avoidance, contract management and renegotiation and termination of contracts and supporting settlement negotiations and ADR proceedings such as mediation, and expert determination.

The following are a number of disputes in which E-Valuate Partners consultants have direct experience:

• Acting for major UK clearing Bank in the provision of technology and platform based alternative dispute resolution techniques to realise the value of substantial off balance sheet assets and to defend a substantial portfolio of claims against the Group's valuation division and also claims flowing out of investment and product mis-selling.

• Acting in a major UK shareholder dispute in relation to what was alleged to be the unlawful diversion of a corporate opportunity. 

• Acting in high profile dispute with former partners of a major UK law firm who refused to repay over drawings to the firm. 

• Acting for Spanish Bank in relation to claims arising out of the securitisation of 2,500 Spanish mortgages. The dispute focused upon the construction of the contractual documentation and the financial consequences of the definition of delinquent mortgages for the proceeds waterfall within the scheme.

• Acting for a Kuwaiti backed investment vehicle with telecoms interests in Liberia in a claim brought by a Lebanese contractor under a guarantee which was subject to English Law. 

• A class action in California which related to the sale of a dual currency mortgage products by a major UK Bank out of its Hong Kong office but secured on real estate in California.