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gunnercooke brings together experienced lawyers across all corporate and commercial disciplines. Every gunnercooke partner has minimum of 10,000 hours’ practising experience, which ensures that every client is advised by a trusted advisor or a team of trusted advisors who understand how to help them to navigate their legal issue. We call it delivering ‘peace of mind’.
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gunnercooke is an international firm with 12 offices globally including the US, Germany, CEE and Scotland, and with further plans for growth in the coming years. These offices have enhanced the existing in-house capability of our dedicated international teams and dual qualified experts that cover China and Hong Kong, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil and Portugal. Our team has experience working across 101 different countries, speaking 30 languages and are dual-qualified in 15 jurisdictions. Our expertise means we can offer large teams to carry out complex cross-border matters for major international clients.
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gunnercooke is a challenger law firm. It challenges the way that legal services are delivered to clients. It challenges the way that lawyers balance their lives. It challenges the way our communities are served by those of us more fortunate. Most of all, it gives lives back to our lawyers and enables them to design their life as they wish to live it – which we believe enables them to deliver a brilliant service to their clients. And it works. Today we are one of the UK’s leading commercial law firms, as measured by our clients, with a Net Promoter Score of on average +84.
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Commercial Litigation and Investigations
Testimonials
“Sydney is amazing.”
“He is a clear and pragmatic thinker with an eye on the end goal from day one and a relentless determination to get there.”
“Sydney has very strong client skills, and a sound grasp of commercial litigation. He thinks outside the box and is always able to find creative solutions.”
Chambers and Partners UK
2023‘He is hugely pragmatic, very solution-focussed and collaborative.’
‘Sydney Fulda is very capable and is able to grapple with complex cases with multiple strands. He provides excellent strategic advice with a cool head.’
Chambers UK
2022‘Sydney Fulda and his team have carried out search and seize, and delivery-up orders on two occasions for us. On both cases the team worked tirelessly throughout the day and night to achieve the desired result. Their dedication to the job proved to be a life saver to our business.’
Client
Expertise
Sydney is a prominent and respected Commercial Litigation and Investigations lawyer with in excess of 30 years of experience. He has particular expertise in the Manchester business arena. He is regarded as a leading individual in the Legal 500 and Chambers directories. He has a broad skill set and a proven track record in adding commercial value to businesses; his focus is objective and solution driven.
He is highly skilled in advising and acting on company, partnership, and commercial disputes, undertaking emergency work covering search and seize orders, freezing orders and injunctions, insolvency and technology disputes and issues around commercial contracts and agreements.
He acts as an independent supervising solicitor, and is experienced in mediations and is a qualified mediator and undertakes work in specialist arbitrations.
Sydney’s experience includes contractual disputes, company, partner, shareholder disputes, advising on charity and trust issues, professional negligence, stockbroking and banking disputes, covering the corporate and personal sectors and undertaking fraud and personal investigations on asset and debt investigations.
Sydney undertakes fraud investigations covering tracing of assets and claim investigations.
Sydney also has extensive experience, inter alia, in advising business relationships in avoiding or managing disputes in a diverse array of sectors.
He has also acted in specialist areas of regulatory work, fraud and investigations, and acts for charities and trustees.
Sydney Advises
- Large corporates
- Charities and trustees
- Company directors
- Partners / partnerships
- Businesses
- Insolvency practitioners
- High net worth individuals
Career History
Previous Law Firms
- Partner, Davies Arnold Cooper (now DAC Beachcroft) (2010–21)
- Partner, Halliwells / HBJ Gateley Wareing (2010)
- Partner / Head of Litigation, Berg Legal (1991–2010)
- Associate & Partner, Flacks Ross (1990–91)
- Assistant Solicitor, Alsop Wilkinson (1989–90)
- Assistant Solicitor, Livingstone & Co. (1986–89)
Education
- Manchester Polytechnic, LLB (Hons)
Get in touch
For further advice please contact us for a consultation.
UK Contact
+44 (0)3330 143 401 info@gunnercooke.comGermany Contact
+49 30 220 131-000 centralservices@gunnercooke.de