Dispute Services

The problem

Disputes such as contract breaches, shareholder class actions, and conflicts with stakeholders and organisations are common in today’s business world. Any kind of conflict, internal or external, can disrupt normalcy, negatively affect relationships, and hinder business outcomes. Prompt dispute resolution is key to safeguarding business value.

Our solution

Eight International’s experts have built up wide-ranging expertise over many years of experience in litigation, arbitration, and mediation, tackling complex disputes of all sizes. Our clients benefit from the way we build partner-led teams that deliver value-for-money solutions and allow the accounting and technology parts of our forensic services team to work together seamlessly.

We assist individuals, companies, and their legal advisors in pre-action and formal legal proceedings in a variety of commercial, technical, and financial matters, such as:

• Pre-contractual (breach of negotiations, etc.)
• Contractual (non-performance, poor performance, etc.)
• Disruption and delay
• Economic, competition (analysis of anti-competitive practices, unfair competition, restrictive practices, counterfeiting, etc.), and regulatory
• Turnaround of companies (renegotiation of unbalanced contracts, related financial consequences, etc.) and bankruptcy/ insolvency litigation (distressed litigation)
• Post-M&A transactions (price adjustments, earn-outs, and breach of warranties)
• Contentious valuations
• Damages assessment
• Shareholder and joint venture disputes
• Matrimonial disputes

We are independent and typically conflict-free. We act for claimants or defendants or as a third-party expert. We can act as:

• An expert named in the contract or appointed by a court/tribunal
• A party-appointed or jointly appointed expert witness giving oral evidence in court
• An expert determiner
• A shadow expert
• An expert advisor

Our dispute services are characterised by the following:

• We support in-house and external legal counsel through every phase of litigation and arbitration, from the initial identification of an issue, negotiation/mediation, provision of expert reports to arbitral and court hearings.
• Our agility allows us to provide support in different jurisdictions across a wide range of industries and types of dispute forums (both domestic and international). We can structure a mixed team tailored to client needs.
• Our work is clear, explicit, conclusive, and addresses all stakeholders to have an impact and generate real added value.