Family
Business Disputes
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- End your family dispute of any nature within 1 day.
- Our family mediators can be within 14 days of contact.
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- Mediate in person or via zoom. Avoid Court.
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Family Businesses
Family businesses are created through good relationships, unfortunately the preservation of such relationships can be difficult to maintain leading to families falling out for a variety of reasons, placing disastrous effects on a business and its continuance, when it is a family member it makes the dispute that little bit more complicated, possibly drawing other family members into it, whereby sides have to be taken.
Business Directors
By their very nature family business disputes can be particularly contentious regardless of whether you are a director, shareholder or partner. Whether you are facing a claim or are a minority shareholder, an early commercial solution to these types of vulnerable and protracted disputes is a must.
Business Dispute Specialisms
Family business, company disputes Shareholder disputes Companies Act disputes Breach of Warranty disputes Director and shareholder disputes Partnership, joint venture disputes
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Our Family Business Mediation Services Have Helped
This was a dispute between a Sikh Punjabi family, namely the father, his daughter, son in law and grandchildren. The son in law was involved in a gold mining business in war torn Sierre Leon in Africa. For some time, it went well, providing significant returns.
The father excited about this, barged his way into the business even though it was made expressly clear to him, that this was extremely risky, and there was no promise of a specified return if any. Initially the business yielded a return, which impressed the father, when then ploughed some £290,000 into it.
As time passed, little if any returns were being recovered, at which point the son in law had to make the difficult decision to stop trading, namely because it was too dangerous to mine in that part of the world. The father angered at this, demanded his money back. A long dispute ensued, the defendants argued this was always a risk, which was made clear to him. Proceedings were instigated. The mediation took nearly eight hours, was in person, and settled.
The claimants (C) were husband and wife. Their next-door neighbour the defendant (D) was the sister of the first C. In breach of the D’s obligations arising from the Party Wall Act 1996 and without obtaining consent from, or consulting the C’s, the D commenced the construction of a rear-single storey extension.
In doing so she encroached on the land of the C’s. The amount of disturbance and inconvenience caused to the C’s was immense. The encroachment consisted of wrongfully building a wall from foundation level on land properly belonging to the C’s.
The works also involved the construction that adjoined the boundary fence and extended beyond the fence, encroaching on land belonging to the C. Fence and garden tiles, were also damaged. Trespass and a lot of mess being created were also issues in the mix.
£20,000 was being claimed. The mediation took place in person, took eight hours, and was settled at mediation. Read the testimonial here.
What Did The Family Business Dispute Clients Say?
Mukesh Murria
Managing Director & Solicitor, Birmingham
"My clients and I were impressed with the resilience, pre-mediation preparation by you. I was also impressed with how you focused the parties on a solution."
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Paul Clarke
Solicitor, Head of Social Welfare Law, Walsall, West Midlands
"Excellent attempts to mediate with a very difficult person. Excellent mediation ability and down to earth style."
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