Overview

Practice Areas

Company, Shareholder and Partnership Disputes

In recent years, Forum Chambers has built an impressive advisory and litigation company law practice. We advise on company disputes including unfair prejudice petitions, derivative actions, shareholder disputes and claims against directors for breach of duty.

Legal 500

Lloyd Maynard is ranked as a Leading Junior in Company Law in Legal500, with feedback including: “Lloyd is technically very strong and a compelling advocate. He gives clear advice, works hard and is analytical in his work, while his advocacy is calm.”

Our Company, Shareholder and Partnership Disputes Work Includes cases relating to:

(2025 – current) Khan v Khan, Business & Property Courts: a £32m dispute concerning disputed shareholding in ASG Ltd, the holding company for several independent schools in England. Lloyd appeared as sole counsel on a successful application for a third-party disclosure order and is retained as part of the counsel team together with David McIlroy and Simon Farrell KC.
(2025 – current) Re Hyperama Plc, High Court – instructed as sole counsel to act for the majority shareholder of H Plc, a £21m business. Advising and defending a minority shareholder’s claim to be entitled to the majority’s shares by reason of proprietary estoppel and acting for the company in claims against a related company for unpaid intercompany borrowing.
(2025 – current) Bundy v Expedite Business Development Ltd, Business & Property Courts in Bristol – instructed as sole counsel to defend the company against claims by its former director and shareholder that the company wrongfully removed the director from office.
(2025 – current) Lathey v Lathey, The Owl Centre Ltd, Business & Property Courts in Wales –instructed as sole counsel for the Defendants to claims for rectification of the register to record the claimant as majority shareholder.
(2025) Re Tribrisant Trading Company Ltd, Business & Property Courts, ICC (ChD) – appeared as sole counsel for a minority shareholder responding to claims by the company to retrospectively amend its articles of association in reliance upon the Duomatic principle. Successfully obtained an order converting proceedings to CPR r.7. Dispute settled at mediation August 2025.
(2024) Acted for K Ltd in LCIA Arbitration proceedings, concerning a £20m dispute with a venture capital firm arising from a shareholder and equity investment agreement.
(2024) Tom v Candey & Others, Business & Property Courts, ICC (ChD) – instructed as sole counsel to pursue an unfair prejudice petition against the owner of a law firm. Lloyd was instructed following disclosure phase with a view to undertaking the trial in November 2024. Following Lloyd’s input into witness statements, the matter settled at mediation in August 2024.
(2024) T v Mr & Mrs B – advised the defendants in response to a draft unfair prejudice petition by the minority shareholder following his expulsion from their company for fraudulent activity.
(2018) Ladjevardi v Nikkhah: successful 3-day trial acting as sole counsel for Mr Ladjevardi in claims for unjust enrichment in respect of an agreement to purchase shares in Gresham House plc.
(2015) Direk v Kargin: instructed at trial and on appeal by the successful claimant concerning a dispute arising from the failure to repay a corporate investment loan.
(2014) Re Gazechim Plastics UK Ltd: drafted a ‘Cash-pooling Agreement’ on behalf of a leading European distributor of engineering plastics and commodity products to be used by a group of companies across the EU and England and Wales.

Barristers specialising in Company, Shareholder and Partnership Disputes

Lloyd Maynard

Call – 2010

Recommendations

A really impressive bench of barristers in a very responsive set. Forum is very much a set of strong but commercial lawyers. The clerking is second to none and Conor Fagan leads a stellar team... bolstering the set even further.

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