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Alston & Bird LLP

Alston & Bird LLP is named as solicitors in at least 11 UK judgments from 2021 to 2026, most often in company and partnership and civil fraud and asset recovery.

11
judgments
10
in the last five years
2
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Company and partnership3
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery2
  • Insolvency and restructuring2
  • Commercial disputes2
  • Arbitration2
  • Cross-border disputes1
  • Trusts, wills and private client1
  • Public international law and sanctions1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)2
  • High Court9

Judgments by year

  • 20263
  • 20250
  • 20242
  • 20233
  • 20222
  • 20211

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Alston & Bird LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
29 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 3056 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Contractual subordination provisions determine priority between subordinated claims, subject to the insolvency rules as interpreted in their contractual…
3
26 Feb 2021
[2021] EWHC 970 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 permits a challenge to an award concerning an arbitral tribunal’s substantive jurisdiction. It does not confer a general…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
20 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 216 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An order for pre-action disclosure under rule 31.16 may be made where the intended claimant and respondent are likely to be parties, the documents would fall…
16 Jan 2026
[2026] EWHC 81 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Where a defendant has failed to file an acknowledgment of service, the court may grant permission to apply for summary judgment if the claim was validly…
24 May 2024
[2024] EWHC 1273 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On an application to amend, the proposed case must be arguable, coherent, properly particularised and supported by evidence establishing a factual basis. The…
22 Mar 2024
[2024] EWHC 472 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A state’s agreement that an arbitral award is final, binding and wholly enforceable may constitute written consent to enforcement against its assets under…
21 Dec 2023
[2023] EWHC 3317 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where litigation involves distinct applications or issues, costs should ordinarily reflect the separate success or failure of each materially distinct step. A…
29 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 3056 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Contractual subordination provisions determine priority between subordinated claims, subject to the insolvency rules as interpreted in their contractual…
3
29 Nov 2023
[2023] EWHC 3036 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A claimant must identify a viable cause of action and plead the essential facts supporting it. An untrue statement made to a third party does not ordinarily…
18 Aug 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 1172 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A stranger to a company cannot become a de facto or shadow director by unilaterally asserting that status. De facto directorship depends on the substance and…
1
29 Apr 2022
[2022] EWHC 1019 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A person cannot become a de facto director merely by unilaterally declaring an intention to assume that office. De facto directorship depends on actually…
2
26 Feb 2021
[2021] EWHC 970 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 permits a challenge to an award concerning an arbitral tribunal’s substantive jurisdiction. It does not confer a general…
3

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Alston & Bird LLP is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Alston & Bird LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.