Guy is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. He also heads up the firm’s work in Property Litigation. As such Guy has a great deal of expertise and experience in advising clients from an owner managed business right through to plcs in connection with all types of commercial and civil disputes. When dealing with property related litigation, Guy deals with both the residential and commercial sector. When acting in the residential sector he ordinarily acts for landlords but acts for both landlords and tenants in the commercial sector.
Guy is also part of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Unit advising clients extensively upon contentious intellectual property issues.
Seeking to provide a sound and constructive legal advice combined with a practical commercial approach, Guy believes in trying to address matters at an early stage and in this regard he has considerable expertise in resolving matters without the need for litigation by using alternative forms of dispute resolution such as mediation.
Guy’s recent work includes:
- Successfully acting for a Claimant business consultant pursuing an action for breach of a supply agreement – recovered the sum claimed of £106,000 plus costs.
- Successfully negotiating a substantial settlement plus costs on behalf of Claimant client regarding a claim for breach of contract pursuant to a guarantee where the other side counterclaimed claiming alleged collateral warranties had not been fulfilled.
- Overseeing client’s entire portfolio of residential properties and making claims for possession; defending claims for alleged statutory nuisances; and claims for compulsory purchase; and making successful applications for local authority grants
- Successfully pursuing a claim for possession of commercial property where the grounds of the landlord’s right to recover the property was disputed by the tenant
- Advising and successfully recovering goods through a negotiated settlement in connection with a claim for breach of copyright and design rights on behalf of a client
- Successfully negotiating multiple undertaking and payment of costs in connection with third party uses of client’s well known trademark.
