"If a piece of work required greater expertise than I could provide, I would send it to Birketts."
From Chambers [UK 2008]

Paul Matthews heads a team offering a comprehensive service in dispute resolution, including advice on terms of trading, partnerships, joint ventures and insolvency. The team has substantial experience of disputes concerning corporate transactional work. Team members are experienced advocates, but our focus is on negotiation and alternative means of dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration to reach the most commercially sound result as quickly as possible.

The team's expertise covers the following areas:

• Agricultural disputes
• National and international debt collection
• Contractual and commercial disputes
• Corporate insolvency
• Defamation
• Disputes in relation to business acquisitions and disposals
• E-commerce disputes
• Inheritance disputes
• Intellectual property disputes
• Partnership and shareholder disputes
• Product liability claims
• Professional negligence
• Property litigation