Business Protection

Our barristers are regularly instructed in high-value Business Protection disputes. Drawing on expertise across Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud, members advise and act in cases where urgent action is required to protect businesses’ commercial interests and valuable assets.

Members of Chambers have substantial experience in cases concerned with the protection of clients’ businesses from unlawful competitive activity. This includes applications for injunctive relief to enforce post-termination restraints in employment contracts, to secure remedies where employees orchestrate combined team moves and to protect and prevent the misuse of confidential information. This work also includes frequent applications for freezing, search and imaging orders.

Members also act in the substantive proceedings that follow, including claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy and fraud, providing strategic, commercially focused advice at every stage of a dispute.

Members also publish and speak regularly on business protection matters. Their work includes a leading textbook on jurisdiction published by Paul Nicholls KC, titled “Employment and Commercial Disputes – the International Aspects” (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Recent Cases

• GCL v Ground Control Limited [2026] 7 WLUK 612 – a business-to-business injunction concerning the enforceability of a non-dealing clause.
• Vertical Aerospace Group v Ngoma [2026] EWHC 1096 (KB) – Application for an imaging order against an employee alleged to have removed confidential information.
• Boydell v NZP Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 373 – Court of Appeal proceedings concerning the enforceability of a post-termination non-compete clause.
• Fiat Republic Ltd v Parody Studios Ltd and Wright – Proceedings concerning the alleged removal and misuse of confidential information by former employees.
• Literacy Capital v Webb [2024] EWHC 2026 – Acting for a defendant to defeat an application for interim relief to enforce a non-compete clause.
• Re Valorem Holdings [2025] EWHC 966 – Acting for a defendant in responding to an application for a freezing order.
• Specialist Risk Group v Bedford – Acting for the employer in a substantial team move claim.
• Lee v GSquare Capital II LP [2023] EWHC 3017 – Judgment on whether an obligation to transfer shares on breach of a restrictive covenant was a penalty.