Experience

Garry has specialised in Commercial and Real Estate disputes since qualification and prior to joining HRO Grant Dawe LLP he was a partner and subsequently consultant to City law firm, Taylor Wessing.

Selected Experience

• Advising PLC in contract dispute over substantial claim in relation to supply of fruit produce from South America
• Acting for publicly owned joint venture company in shareholder dispute with co-shareholder
• Advising individual on defence of a claim against UK assets following US judgment
• Advising UK carbon credit trading company on attempted repudiation of sale/purchase agreement by foreign counterparty
• Advising US company on enforcement of claim against Chinese state owned company under software maintenance agreement subject to ICC arbitration
• Advising PLC on its claim against guarantors under business asset sale
• Advising on employee fraud claim for international bank, involving asset freezing and tracing claims
• Acting for major European bank on claims arising from barter agreement/letters of credit
• Acting for city brokers on challenge to local authority swaps deals
• Acting for major building society on multiple professional negligence claims arising from lending transactions
• Co-ordinating UK owned steel makers' defence of fatal accident claims in US after factory explosion 
• Acting for French co-operative in shareholder dispute in relation to English food processing company

• Every kind of dispute affecting occupation, ownership, investment and financing of commercial property on behalf of property owners and occupiers, professional investors, developers and banks
• Property insurance claims
• Enforcement of lease covenants
• Dilapidations
• Rent reviews disputes
• Forfeiture, mortgage possession and squatters
• Professional negligence claims against professional property advisers