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Alius Law is a London law firm focused on complex disputes and contentious insolvency. Always solutions driven, our senior team has vast experience of delivering successful outcomes for clients in both litigation and arbitration across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and offshore jurisdictions, with deep sector expertise in financial services, international trade and aviation.

Since 2021, Alius Law has been delivering stronger outcomes and better value for clients than traditional law firms thanks to our philosophy and structure that ensure total client alignment and effective, efficient and excellent legal services. 

Each Alius Law partner provides a highly personalised service and is motivated to support clients with ideas and solutions to help them achieve the best possible results.  Our clients include companies and company directors, banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, offshore trust companies, family offices, insolvency practitioners and UHNWs. 

COMMERCIAL LITITGATION AND ARBRITRATION

We have vast experience and success in handling complex and high profile commercial litigation for clients

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Insolvency and Debt Litigation

INSOLVENCY AND DISTRESSED DEBT

We act for individuals and companies facing claims and regulatory action brought by liquidators, bankruptcy trustees and regulators.

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Aviation Litigation Specialists

AVIATION

Our market-leading aviation team focuses on the contentious aspects of aviation sector work

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Public Procurement

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND COMPETITION

Public procurement is the process by which public authorities (includinggovernment departments) purchase goods or services.

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Client Testimonials
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"Focuses on contentious aviation work, with considerable experience acting in disputes for leasing companies against aircraft lessees in situations of distress or insolvency."

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She is solid, sensible and tough as nails. If you’re a director facing a claim, she is an excellent person to go to as she will fight it sensibly and stand by you

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Notable expert in large, complex matters, including those in the financial sector

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ADDRESS

4 Cavendish Square,
London, W1G 0PG

CONTACT

+44 (0)20 3947 3220
team@aliuslaw.co.uk 

 

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Craig Laverty

Craig is a litigation and arbitration lawyer with experience of fraud and complex asset recovery actions. He has acted for a Premier League footballer in a dispute with their management agent and he has worked for companies in the financial services sector. Craig is also a qualified mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator.

John Ford

JOHN FORD

John Ford is an exceptionally well-connected litigation lawyer specialising in complex commercial litigation, trust, insolvency and commercial fraud disputes.

John’s clients include ultra-high net-worth individuals, global professional service providers of corporate and trustee services, and the leading banking group in the Middle East.

John is known for his straightforward approach and clever tactical advice. Clients have said that John’s advice is “second to none”, that he is “genuinely very gifted” and that they “have been delighted with [his] help and support”. He has been recognised as being “in complete command of the detail”. John’s work has been noted for providing “an immaculate service with excellent response times, and has a depth of knowledge and experience which shows that each matter has been researched beforehand to the highest standard”.

John is skilled at managing crisis situations and winning cases judicially described as “attrition warfare at its height”.

John practises at all levels of the English Civil Court system and has experience in offshore jurisdictions including the BVI, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man and Jersey. John is also an ADR Group Accredited Mediator.

johnford@aliuslaw.co.uk

Ben Drew | Alius Law

BEN DREW

Ben Drew is an expert in handling disputes involving financial distress, insolvency and fraud with a focus on the financial services sector. Ben’s clients include financial services firms, banks and well known insolvency practitioners. He is also the trusted advisor to a number of high-net worth individuals and family offices. Ben has defended company directors in the financial services sector from claims brought by shareholders and he has acted for companies in the gaming sector. Ben enjoys getting to know clients to gain a deep understanding of their businesses so he can come up with creative solutions.

bendrew@aliuslaw.co.uk

COMPLAINTS PROCEDURES

Alius Law is committed to providing a high quality of service in all respects, however, if at any point you have queries or concerns about any aspect of your matter (including a bill) then please do not hesitate to contact the Partner working on your matter. We will do our best to resolve any problems within a reasonable time frame. Making a complaint will not affect how we handle your case.

If we are unable to resolve your complaint ourselves, the Legal Ombudsman can look at your complaint independently. Before commencing an investigation, the Legal Ombudsman will check that you have tried to resolve your complaint with us first. The Legal Ombudsman expects complaints to be made to them within one year of the date of the act or omission about which you are concerned or within one year of you realising there was a concern. You must also refer your concerns to the Legal Ombudsman within six months of our final response to you. For more information you can contact the Legal Ombudsman: www.legalombudsman.org.uk.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the professional regulator of Alius Law and handles any complaints relating to professional misconduct. For more information you can visit their website at: www.sra.org.uk.

REECE DAVISON

Reece Davison is dual qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and an attorney in New York. Reece is an aviation leasing and finance disputes specialist and regularly advises aircraft lessors on all manner of complex cross border disputes, including in relation to: return conditions; aircraft and engine repossession; rent; MRO disputes; supply chain issues; financing documents, aircraft/fleet purchase agreements; and aircraft conversion contracts. Reece also advises on other commercial disputes and has recently: acted for a global logistics company on a sale of goods dispute; advised on potentially fraudulent transactions in the context of insolvency; advised a company on its transactions with a longstanding customer that entered administration; and acted for a high net worth individual in respect of a multijurisdictional fraud case. Reece’s practice spans from advising clients on how to avoid disputes all the way to trial (and beyond). Reece has a lot of experience with cases in the High Court and arbitrations under various arbitral institutions, including the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Bree Taylor | Alius Law

BREE TAYLOR

Bree is a leading expert in large scale complex commercial disputes with over 20 years experience as a commercial litigator and insolvency specialist.  Bree has acted in some of the most high-profile fraud and company cases of recent years and has successfully defended numerous companies and company directors from lawsuits and regulatory action.  Bree recently acted for a manufacturer of PPE in a claim against the NHS in relation to a public procurement process.  She successfully defended a well known retailer from claims of anti-competitive conduct in the Competition Appeals Tribunal.

Bree heads up the firm’s Aviation Disputes practice and has been involved in most of the leading cases in recent years, achieving successful outcomes for owners/lessors.  Bree led the team that successfully struck out a claim brought by a well-known Indian airline against an aircraft leasing company and obtained a judgment for another aircraft leasing company against an airline based in Saudi Arabia.   She is regularly instructed to give second opinions on existing cases, take over the conduct of cases from other lawyers or to carry out negotiations on behalf of parties involved in high-value confidential legal disputes.

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Bree is a regular contributor to journals and articles.  Bree is a  Fellow of R3, the Association of Insolvency Professionals.  She speaks at conferences for the Aviation sector and the Arbitration community.

Rachel Bond

Rachel Bond

Rachel’s academic background in both law and science informs her approach to cross-jurisdictional commercial litigation and software disputes. Rachel has advised on complex and technical claims, including in a dispute arising from a venture to develop mines in Mozambique. Rachel has also worked on the team that brought a fraud claim in Switzerland against a partner of a joint-venture set up for the purpose of high value art sales. At present, Rachel is acting on a case in the Technology and Construction Court in relation to the development of a functional system to deal with cryptocurrency in the online gambling industry.