Lazarichev & Ors v Lyndou [2024]
[2023] EWHC 1487 (Ch)
This case presented what is believed to be the first opportunity to consider the question of whether “resident” within the meaning of r25.13(2)(a) means “lawfully resident”.
Joint venture and partnership disputes
Members of Wilberforce Chambers are regularly instructed in disputes involving joint venture or partnership arrangements of all types (including contractual, LLP, corporate and trust). Instructions include disputes of the highest value, and range from those including individual joint venture partners to those involving extremely substantial international businesses and highly complex structures. Many matters in which members act involve a multi-jurisdictional or offshore element, and the assets which are at the heart of disputes range from complex corporate or financial investments to land and high-value chattels. Members also have particular experience in asset-tracing, insolvency and civil fraud work, as well as shareholder disputes and the termination and winding up of joint venture and partnership arrangements. Members appear in offshore jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Nevis, Bermuda, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.
[2023] EWHC 1487 (Ch)
This case presented what is believed to be the first opportunity to consider the question of whether “resident” within the meaning of r25.13(2)(a) means “lawfully resident”.
[2023] EWHC 321 (Ch)
A claim pertaining to a property portfolio worth in excess of £10million, relating to a fraud perpetrated by the defendant over a number of years through a corporate structure designed to facilitate the fraud. The case was commenced by worldwide freezing order, both parties being of Malaysian origin.
Joint venture dispute in the BVI worth many hundreds of millions of dollars, relating to businesses in Hong Kong. Settled (in 2022) shortly before a nine-week trial.
Acting for the Defendants in a major High Court dispute relating to the artworks of Robert Indiana (famous for his “LOVE” sculptures).
An LCIA arbitration concerning a major joint venture dispute relating to a mine, between a major metals group and its trading partners. With a value of up to $500 million.
[2022] EWHC 481 (Ch)
6 day High Court trial over alleged breaches of JVA in connection with $30m fundraising for Austrian vanadium battery manufacturer.

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In the latest edition of our commercial litigation insights series, Alice Hawker examines the Court of Appeal's recent decision in G.I. Globinvestment Ltd v XY ERS UK Limited [2026] EWCA Civ 1248, considering whether a fiduciary's duty to disclose is a shield (against claims alleging breach of the ’no conflict’ or ’no profit’ rules) or a sword (to be used as a freestanding claim).
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