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In today's global marketplace, despite best business practices, litigation and disputes are often unavoidable. As a large publicly listed company or a small privately owned business, you will need lawyers who will deliver the outcome that meets your objectives and work within the commercial realities you operate in day to day. 

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Our UK based team advises on national and international disputes, specialising in sectors such as financial services, energy, life sciences & healthcare, and TMC. 

We have a wealth of experience in resolving complex commercial disputes and successfully avoiding disputes in the first place. Our advice includes drafting dispute resolution clauses during pre-contractual negotiations, through to obtaining emergency injunctions in situations where assets may be at risk, to complex multi-jurisdictional disputes and enforcing judgements and recovering assets.

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09/02/2022
CMS 2021 SEP/FRAND Lit­ig­a­tion Round Up
In case you missed any of the key FRAND re­lated pat­ent de­cisions from last year, set out be­low is our case round-up. Do reach out for fur­ther de­tails. Jur­is­dic­tion­al Chal­lenges - Nokia V Oppo Nokia v...
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07/07/2021
Me­dia lit­ig­a­tion in the In­ter­net age, in­clud­ing a dis­cus­sion on the draft...
Fol­low­ing last year’s in­aug­ur­al ex­plor­a­tion of the me­dia lit­ig­a­tion toolkit, this year’s series will provide a prac­tic­al re­fresh­er of the key top­ics in this area, in­clud­ing the re­cent and fu­ture de­vel­op­ments.In...
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30/06/2021
Repu­ta­tion man­age­ment – deal­ing with in­ac­cur­ate al­leg­a­tions (Part 2)
Fol­low­ing last year’s in­aug­ur­al ex­plor­a­tion of the me­dia lit­ig­a­tion toolkit, this year’s series will provide a prac­tic­al re­fresh­er of the key top­ics in this area, in­clud­ing the re­cent and fu­ture de­vel­op­ments.In...
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23/06/2021
Keep­ing it secret – claims for con­fid­en­tial and/or private in­form­a­tion...
Fol­low­ing last year’s in­aug­ur­al ex­plor­a­tion of the me­dia lit­ig­a­tion toolkit, this year’s series will provide a prac­tic­al re­fresh­er of the key top­ics in this area, in­clud­ing the re­cent and fu­ture de­vel­op­ments.In...
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08/04/2021
Reach­ing an agree­ment on vary­ing a con­tract (Video)
As a res­ult of COV­ID-19 the need to amend the terms of com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships has in­creased ex­po­nen­tially for some busi­nesses. It may no longer be pos­sible to per­form cer­tain con­tracts due to changes...
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30/03/2021
Gov­ern­ing Law and Jur­is­dic­tion in Air­craft Leas­ing
Should you con­tin­ue to choose Eng­lish law and Eng­lish courts for your air­craft leases?  Will Eng­lish court judg­ments be en­force­able across the EU? Does the form of sub­mis­sion to jur­is­dic­tion clauses...
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10/09/2020
Priv­ilege: What you need to know
The last couple of years have seen some im­port­ant de­vel­op­ments in Eng­lish case law in the area of leg­al pro­fes­sion­al priv­ilege, from the Court of Ap­peal over­turn­ing a re­strict­ive in­ter­pret­a­tion of lit­ig­a­tion...
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07/05/2019
Tech­no­logy and dis­pute res­ol­u­tion—in­nov­a­tion, dis­rup­tion, evol­u­tion
As part of the in­aug­ur­al Lon­don In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Week, CMS will be host­ing a must-at­tend ses­sion: Tech­no­logy and dis­pute res­ol­u­tion—in­nov­a­tion, dis­rup­tion, evol­u­tion.Tech­no­logy is play­ing an in­creas­ingly...
Event Legal
10/01/2019
CMS proud to be part of the first Lon­don In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Week
Tak­ing place from 7-10 May 2019, the in­aug­ur­al Lon­don In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Week (LIDW) will ex­plore the fu­ture of in­ter­na­tion­al dis­pute res­ol­u­tion and Lon­don’s place in it, through a pro­gramme of...
News
18/04/2017
Dis­putes di­gest
Wel­come to our Spring edi­tion of Dis­putes Di­gest. In this edi­tion, we look back at 2016 and sum­mar­ise the key lit­ig­a­tion and ar­bit­ra­tion cases of 2016 for cor­por­ate coun­sel to be aware of. We also...
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29/09/2016
Dis­putes di­gest
Wel­come to the fourth edi­tion of Dis­putes Di­gest, fea­tur­ing com­ment­ary and ana­lys­is on the latest de­vel­op­ments in dis­pute res­ol­u­tion across the UK and bey­ond.Over the sum­mer, the de­bate over the leg­al...
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25/11/2015
Dis­putes Di­gest - cur­rent leg­al is­sues af­fect­ing the mar­ket
This edi­tion con­tains up­dates and com­ment­ary on a range of is­sues, in­clud­ing art­icles on the High Court’s ‘Fin­an­cial List’ which is now up and run­ning, cur­rent trends in pen­sions lit­ig­a­tion, key...
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