Dispute Resolution
At Dumonts, Raheel applies his extensive legal experience to an established dispute resolution practice. He is regularly instructed on complex multi-party actions, often with an international dimension.
As a highly versatile commercial litigator, Raheel has represented his clients at every level of court in England and Wales, including the Property and Tax Tribunals. He has a reputation as an insightful tactician, who is reassuring and responsive with a genuine desire to win.
Insolvency
Raheel is a specialist in corporate and personal insolvency. He regularly acts for creditors, debtors, company directors and insolvency practitioners in contentious and non-contentious matters nationally and internationally.
He has a wide range of expertise in advising directors on disqualification proceedings under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, having previously prosecuted such claims on behalf of the Secretary of State.
Raheel’s passion for law and international development has taken him to work in Belize as a volunteer lawyer assisting the government with domestic violence legislative reform. He has also worked at the Financial Conduct Authority and in the Attorney General’s Team at the Treasury Solicitors’ Department.
Notable cases include:
- Acting in antecedent application on behalf of liquidator of record company in relation to assignment by director of record company back catalogue
- Acting for party in CPR Part 86 interpleader proceedings concerning trust status of properties within large portfolio following bankruptcy of business partner
- Acted in dispute concerning distribution of probate account following liquidation of father’s former transportation company
- Very high value tax dispute with HMRC concerning national company comprising multiple claims and six appeals simultaneously fought in within the First Tier and Upper Tier Tax Tribunals.
- Corporate governance and breach of contract claim concerning on behalf of patent attorney client across multiple jurisdictions worldwide
- Advising cinema chain in wake of administration of major high street retailer and implications for their joint venture agreement
- Assisting in provision of advice to UAE creditor business in relation to administration of a Northern Irish debtor company
- Acting for Joint Supervisors in relation to complex IVA principal asset of which was a hotel located in Germany owned by company registered in Switzerland
