Alan has a wide experience of all forms of dispute resolution including High Court litigation, arbitration and mediation, covering a wide area of different commercial disputes.
His areas of expertise include sports law (where he acts for a number of organisations, clubs and players), partnership disputes (he has acted for both firms and individual partners in disputes covering all aspects of a partnership), media and entertainment law (acting for management companies and broadcasters) company and commercial disputes (including shareholder disputes, warranty and other commercial claims, claims against directors), professional negligence claims (for both Claimant and Defendant) and defamation (where he has acted on a number of high profile cases).
Credentials
- Italian and French individuals and corporate defendants in high profile privacy, libel and trade mark claims brought by Sir Martin Sorrell, worldwide CEO of the media and advertising group WPP and his ex-girlfriend, Daniela Weber. The breach of privacy and trade mark infringement claims related to material which was heard in private by the Court. The libel claim related to statements posted on an internet blog
- Successfully defending Cenkos Securities Plc in the Commercial Court regarding a claim brought by Thomas Crema, an investment banker who had previously worked as a freelance sub-agent for Cenkos
- SMG and Virgin Radio on successfully defending the High Court action brought by Chris Evans following his dismissal in June 2001
- Council of London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in claims for restitution (acted for Hammersmith)
- Tottenham Hotspur v Football Association (acted for Tottenham Hotspur in dispute with the FA regarding point deduction and exclusion from the FA cup)
- talkSPORT in successfully defending an attempt by the BBC to stop it broadcasting its unofficial commentaries of Euro 2000 matches
- John Reid in his dispute with Michael Flatley over the termination of his management agreement
- Sir Alan Sugar in his successful proceedings against the Daily Mail for libel