Farrah Khalid specializes in all areas of commercial dispute resolution, insolvency and property litigation and is experienced at dealing with complex and multi-layered disputes involving insolvency or reputational risk management issues.
Working across various sectors, Farrah’s approach is to understand the client’s goals and provide creative and strategic solutions to help achieve desired results in a cost-effective manner. Farrah’s experience is broad, and her focus is on providing pragmatic and commercially astute advice to her clients to reach quick resolutions when possible. Farrah has also acted for and against various financial institutions to resolve disputes over lending facilities and enforcement action. Farrah has advised a variety of clients, from SME’s to ultra-high net worth individuals and acted for institutions such as the City of London Corporation in a variety of disputes.
Azima -v- Ras Al Kiamah Investment Authority, Gerrard, Dechert & Ors (HC-2016-002798; A3/2020/1271; UKSC 2021/0084):- Acting for an aviation tycoon on a claim remitted to retrial by the Court of Appeal. The claim is for damages arising from the hacking and setting aside a judgement procured by fraud. This is a widely reported case concerning the hacking of an aviation tycoon by a foreign sovereign wealth fund and allegedly assisted by Dechert LLP and other Additional Defendant parties orchestrating the biggest fraud and cover up against the English legal system.
Areas of Expertise
- Commercial Litigation
- Breach of contract claims
- Director and shareholder disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Debts and enforcement action
- Disputes over finance facility agreements and other bank issues
- Enforcement proceedings
- Civil Fraud and Misrepresentations claims
- Defamation and reputation management
- Intellectual property disputes
Property disputes
- Landlord and tenant disputes (residential and commercial)
- Possession claims
- Trust of land act disputes (TOLATA)
- Boundary disputes
- Adverse possession
- Injunctive relief proceedings
- Enforcement of easements
- Dilapidations Claims
- Party wall act disputes
- Right to light disputes
- Forfeiture action
Corporate and personal insolvency litigation
- Claims concerning beneficial interests of assets
- Advising Insolvency Practitioners on Director’s misfeasance Wrongful trading
- Defending claims against directors for Antecedent Transactions
- Disputing statutory demands, bankruptcy orders and winding-up petitions
- Setting aside statutory demands
- Annulment of bankruptcy orders
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