Tenarys Law is a City of London disputes boutique advising businesses, construction companies and insurers on significant disputes where the right commercial course is not always obvious.
The firm was built around a simple idea: significant disputes should be assessed properly from the outset, with the legal merits and commercial reality considered together. We help clients decide whether to pursue, defend, settle or walk away, and we have the litigation experience to take matters through when the right course is to proceed.
Businesses do not want litigation for its own sake. They want the dispute resolved, the financial position protected and management time used effectively.
We assess the legal position and commercial reality together, so that a client can decide whether pursuing, defending, settling or discontinuing a dispute is the right use of its resources.
Where a dispute should be fought, we say so. Where it should not, we say that too.
Our model is designed for significant disputes that require experienced, proportionate attention. We aim to combine the depth required for complex work with a structure that remains commercially sensible for the client.
Significant cost can be incurred early in a dispute before the merits and commercial position have been properly assessed. We therefore focus on obtaining an informed view at an early stage.
A client’s account is an important starting point, but the key question is what can be proved, what documents exist and what evidence the other side is likely to produce.
A claim worth £800,000 against a company with £90,000 of assets is not a claim worth £800,000. Recovery is part of the assessment from the start.
Negotiation, mediation, adjudication, litigation and doing nothing are all strategies. We recommend the approach that best fits the client’s objective and revisit it as the matter develops.
Clear costs estimates, fixed fees where the work can be defined, and risk sharing structures where they are appropriate to the case. The firm was built without legacy systems, which is what makes proportionate pricing possible on complex work.
An early view is only worth having if the firm giving it can act on it. Tenarys brings genuine litigation depth to every assessment.
Matters conducted through the courts where the value or the point of principle justifies it.
Experience handling substantial commercial disputes, including matters involving technical evidence, construction issues, expert witnesses, financial loss and complex contractual questions.
Negotiation, mediation and settlement strategy, used where they produce a better commercial result than proceedings.
Matters prepared and carried through to trial where they have to be seen through.
Our clients include directors, finance leads, claims handlers and in-house counsel who carry the matter internally. They need cash flow disruption minimised, the file to progress and the dispute to reach a resolution.
Communication, planning and prioritisation, supported by systems designed for disputes work rather than inherited from general practice. Clients know what is happening on their matter and what is happening next.
We establish what the client is trying to achieve, and what the opponent’s purpose is in engaging in the dispute, then prepare early enough to make the strongest use of both. Preparing early is what creates the option to settle well.
Our guide for senior decision-makers sets out the framework we use to assess a commercial dispute before committing to a course of action.
Read our commercial dispute viability guideThe initial triage is a short structured conversation about the facts, the exposure and the realistic options. There is no charge for it, and it does not commit you to instructing the firm.
To find out how we can help you, contact us now
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