Richard Hewitt Email & Phone Number

Practice Areas: Commercial Dispute ResolutionAreas of ExpertiseRichard is the Head of the Contentious Business Group at Wedlake Bell. He has extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation. Richard is regularly instructed to deal with international disputes, involving conflict of laws and jurisdictional issues. He frequently works alongside lawyers from other jurisdictions so as to facilitate the bringing of enforcement proceedings, and emergency applications to secure assets and to obtain evidence.He also has extensive experience in dealing with claims relating to the financial services industry, including high profile fraud cases, pension fund disputes, disputes relating to insurance syndicates, the acquisition and disposal of overseas assets and the exercise of rights by minority shareholders.Summary of ExperienceRichard qualified in 1976 and joined Wedlake Bell as a partner in 1987. Richard has worked on a broad range of disputes, including a number of high profile, reported cases and judicial review proceedings. His experience includes multi-million pound fraud cases, tracing claims involving cross-border issues and emergency applications to seize assets. He is regularly instructed to deal with claims relating to breach of contract, misrepresentation, professional negligence and cross border judicial review proceedings..

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