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Commercial litigation and insolvency
Navinder is head of our insolvency team. He has recently advised a variety of prestigious clients on insolvency and restructuring issues, providing bespoke and pro-active advice to directors and investors. He has led teams which have handled a number of group restructurings and pre-packaged Administrations, which have enabled clients to continue to trade effectively through these challenging times. He is regularly instructed by Administrators, Liquidators and Trustees in Bankruptcy and has pursued a large number of successful actions on their behalf. He is an accredited member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association, having passed their professional exams in June 2009.
Navinder is also a robust and experienced commercial litigator who has handled claims on behalf of high net worth individuals, multinationals and nation states. He is involved in a broad range of complex litigation matters, from contractual and property to professional negligence disputes.
Navinder is the firm's expert on Conditional Fee Arrangments, Legal Costs Insurance and costs. As a result, he provides strategic contributions on many of the firm's high value claims and advises, where appropriate, on alternative funding options to maximise our clients' ability to pursue litigation costs effectively.
Year qualified
1999
Education
University of Birmingham – LLB
• Advised the directors and investors of a prestigious British womens retailer on insolvent trading and general structural issues. Then acted to facilitate a swift and clean exit from the business which considerably exceeded the investor's expectations.
• Led the Insolvency team in advising a client with significant creditor issues and effecting, through a pre-packaged administration, a sale of the business within a very short period of time, whilst protecting the investor loans and providing him with tax benefits as a result.
• Structured the voluntary liquidation of Bermudan and UK companies that formed part of a joint venture between a UK client and a US company, to realise a £40m loss for tax, including advising upon the separation of the joint venture
• Acted for a UK based multi-national corporation on insolvency issues arising from a $1 billion plus sale of part of its business to a US competitor
• Secured multiple injunctions and judgment against an employee of a client who had stolen in excess of £250,000 from its accounts
• Successfully settled a shareholders dispute relating to a multi-million pound property development in Wales
• Represented a Cuban music collective in a test case and advised on complex costs issues before the Court of Appeal
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