Robert Sear

Consultant - Dispute Resolution

Robert is a highly experienced lawyer specialising in commercial and corporate disputes. He is also a CEDR-accredited and practising mediator. He acts for individuals and companies in connection with a wide variety of business related matters including partnerships, shareholder and director disputes. He has also been actively involved in a number of trust-related issues over the past few years, acting for trustees and beneficiaries as the lead Partner in a number of high-profile and reported cases. In addition to this, Robert has spent many years advising creditors, credit insurers and companies on commercial matters including insolvency related issues, as well as working with US and French clients, particularly on multi-jurisdictional disputes. He is the UK contributor to a French legal textbook on EU member country legal systems' Prevention et Gestion du Contentieux en Europe and has acted for various parties in a number of reported cases.