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Abtin is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution department, specialising in commercial and property litigation.

He has experience of taking matters to trial in the High Court and has also been involved in a number of successful appeals before the Court of Appeal.

Experience highlights 

• Advising and acting for various lenders in connection with obtaining vacant possession and enforcing personal guarantees.
• Advising a lender in respect of its occupation of premises on Old Broad Street and dealing with a claim for dilapidations.
• Acting for a developer and London Local Authority in a High Court Right of Light Claim in respect of a neighbouring development.
• Legget & Ors -v-Giambrone Law LLP (In Liquidation) –€3.5m group litigation claim by 43 claimants against their former solicitors, Giambrone Law (“the Firm”) over its advice the clients in a failed property development that had alleged had links to the Mafia.  It had been alleged that the Firm was under a duty to warn investors of the risks involved in investing in a part of Italy associated with organised crime.
• Acting for a BVI entity (the Applicant) for an order by the Court approving the terms of a contested lease and for it to be executed by a District Judge sitting at Central London County Court on behalf of the Respondent in accordance with section 39 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.
• Successfully obtaining a vesting order against the Crown estate.
• Acting for the proposed Claimant in a £1.2 million dilapidations claim in respect of a property in prime Central London valued at in excess of £12 million.
• Acting for the applicant challenging the remuneration of a trustee in bankruptcy under Insolvency Rules 18.35 and 18.36 on the basis that the sums sought were excessive and disproportionate.
• Acting for the Claimant in a million-pound claim against a former investment advisor.  The claim included allegations of negligence and fraudulent misrepresentation.  The sum achieved in settlement was more than what counsel had predicted at trial.
• Acting for the successful claimants in various libel claims which have included, Al-Haddad -v- BBC, Sultan Choudhury -v- The Times Newspaper Limited, Huda Television Limited -v- The Henry Jackson Society.
• Acting for the claimant company against one of its former directors who had embezzled a six-figure sum from the company during his directorship.  The disputed sum was recovered on behalf of the company and was secured against the defendant’s property pending payment in full.
• Obtaining a successful settlement for the claimant in Chancery proceedings in a claim worth £600,000 against the claimant’s son for fraud and the mismanagement of a property portfolio.