ContractDisputes

Contract disputes can impact all aspects of your business, from key technology to HR. Our commercial litigation lawyers can help you resolve these disputes, review new or existing contracts for risk, and advise on how to prevent future disputes happening.
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Choose Irwin Mitchell for support with contract disputes

It’s important to find quick resolutions to any dispute to avoid any disruption to your operations. With our breadth of specific market expertise and experience, we’re able to quickly understand your business and to find solutions.

Our lawyers take a pragmatic and commercial approach to contract disputes. This approach can be helpful in helping you to maintain important relationships and to protect your reputation. Often this means aiming to resolve your dispute through alternative dispute resolution – negotiation, mediation, or arbitration. However, if a dispute needs to go to court, you’ll have the full support of our experienced contract disputes lawyers throughout.

We’re creative problem-solvers and you’ll get innovative strategies that balance risk management with practical commercial considerations. In many cases we can share the risk and cost of resolving your dispute with you, through our flexible funding options.

Contract disputes can involve a wide range of interrelated areas of law. As one of the UK’s largest full-service law firms, we have the diverse expertise needed to advise on disputes involving all types of contracts, including:

  • IT and technology contracts
  • Key supply chain contracts
  • Key facility or service operating contracts
  • Distribution, franchise, and licensing agreements
  • Sales of goods or service agreements
  • Construction contracts
  • Employment contracts
  • Outsourcing and agency staffing contracts.

To find out more about how our contract disputes lawyers can help your business, get in touch today.

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Katie Byrne
Katie Byrne
Partner & Joint National Head of Commercial Dispute Resolution

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