Commercial & Business

Nicholas Leviseur has an extensive practice in and considerable experience of commercial litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal in London and in the negotiated and arbitral resolution of profit sharing, commercial development and buy out agreements and partnership disputes. He is also instructed in arbitral appeals to the High Court. The subject matter of recent instructions has included passing off, telecommunications, rectification, gas supply solus agreements, land development and mineral extraction contracts, director and shadow director share and bonus agreements, commercial hold harmless clauses and avoidance of liability in commercial insurance contracts. He is regularly instructed in disputes involving entrepreneurs, businesses and banks and in partnership disputes between doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeons, restaurateurs and solicitors, as well as in negligence actions against solicitors and other professionals. He has considerable familiarity with pre-action remedies and injunction relief and, in appropriate cases, with the grant and discharge of Anton Piller, Mareva, Norwich Pharmacal, and Khanna orders and in working knowledge of the methods commonly used to place funds in offshore jurisdictions.

Nicholas Leviseur accepts instructions under the CCG’s Standard Contractual Terms for Professional Services which can be downloaded in pdf format.

Significant cases include:

Eastern Counties Leather plc v Eastern Counties Leather Group Ltd [2003] Env LR 13

In Rio Eloc Electron Opticck BV [1982] Ch 43

Naf Naf SA v Dickens [1993] FSR 424

Owen Promotions Ltd v Flynn

Alliance and Leicester Building Society v Ghahremani [1992] RVR 193

Sloggett v Perry No (2) LTL 25/5/2000

Bates and Micro Star LTL 4/7/2000 CA

Bates and Micro Star No (3) [2003] EWHC 661CLD