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ME Law is a litigation-only boutique retained by companies, boards, executives, principals, lenders, investors, and in-house legal teams around the world in consequential commercial disputes — including injunctions, receivership-related proceedings, financial litigation, commercial court matters, arbitration, and cross-border disputes.
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Commercial Court & Cross-Border Disputes
ME Law is a litigation-only firm. We do not dilute our practice with transactional or general corporate work. We act for institutional parties, businesses, boards, executives, principals, lenders, investors, and private clients when a dispute puts capital, control, assets, reputation, or enterprise value at risk.
Every mandate is designed around the decision that will ultimately matter: the interlocutory order, the arbitral award, the commercial court outcome, the negotiated resolution, or the trial. We maintain a deliberately limited caseload so senior counsel remains accountable for strategy and advocacy from the first call to the final order.
Commercial litigation is not an abstract legal exercise. It is a decision about risk, leverage, control, and value.
The ME Law StandardThe outcome of a business dispute is shaped long before the courtroom — in the discipline of the record, the timing of the motion, and the command of commercial court procedure.
We treat every commercial mandate as trial-bound and ready for commercial court from day one. Document review, forensic analysis, and evidence strategy are built before the first pleading is filed.
Forum, timing, and leverage are decided deliberately — action or application, court or arbitration, urgent motion or negotiated resolution — calibrated to your commercial objectives.
Motions, discovery, and commercial court case management are handled with precision, so the pace of the dispute serves your business — not the other side's delay.
When negotiation serves the business, we resolve from strength. When it does not, we are trial-ready — because that preparation is what creates the leverage to resolve on your terms.
Dedicated litigation counsel for complex disputes, urgent remedies, financial litigation and arbitration.
Structured for the forum, remedy and business objective that will decide the mandate. Select a service to see the matters we handle and the remedies most often engaged.
We enforce and defend complex commercial agreements for boards, CFOs, and business owners — from repudiation and non-performance to damages and specific performance across multi-party and cross-border contracts.
We act for boards, directors, and shareholders in oppression claims, deadlock, buyouts, and governance conflicts — protecting enterprise value while resolving control.
Boards and executives face personal exposure once a dispute reaches litigation, and in-house counsel is often coordinating outside counsel across several fronts at once. We advise and defend directors, officers, and general counsel directly — and work alongside internal legal teams rather than around them.
Directors, officers, partners, and advisors owe duties of loyalty and good faith. We pursue and defend claims where those duties have been breached and the business has suffered as a result.
When a business relationship breaks down, we act quickly to protect value — structuring the exit, the buyout, or the wind-down before the dispute erodes what the business is worth.
We move quickly in civil fraud matters affecting the business — freezing assets, tracing funds, and pursuing recovery across accounts, entities, and borders.
We act for lenders, borrowers, and counterparties in disputes over loan agreements, guarantees, derivatives, and other financial instruments — where the sums are large and the documentation is dense.
When assets, evidence, or the status quo are at immediate risk, we obtain urgent interlocutory and ex parte relief — often within days — to protect the business while the merits are litigated.
Specialised commercial courts and lists hear complex commercial disputes under active case management. We assess promptly where your matter should be heard, and run the case-managed process to your advantage.
Not every commercial dispute needs a trial. Where the record permits, we bring early dispositive motions to resolve the case — or the key issues — without the cost and delay of proceeding to trial.
Where a commercial agreement provides for arbitration, we assess whether to enforce or resist the clause, and act in the arbitration itself and in related court proceedings.
Transactions do not end at closing. We act in disputes over earn-outs, indemnities, representations and warranties, and other post-closing obligations arising from M&A and financing transactions.
A judgment or award is only as good as its enforcement. We pursue debtors and their assets — domestically and across borders — through every enforcement tool available.
When a counterparty becomes insolvent, timing and priority decide outcomes. We act for creditors, receivers, and debtors in receivership applications and insolvency-adjacent commercial disputes.
ME Law is retained by institutional parties, boards, general counsel, executives, principals, lenders, investors, family offices, and business owners when a commercial dispute carries significant financial, operational, or reputational consequence. We are not a general practice. We are litigation counsel for matters in which the outcome has to withstand commercial and legal scrutiny.
Governance disputes, oppression claims, and director and officer liability where board decisions are challenged.
Contract disputes, counterparty defaults, and debt recovery that put balance-sheet exposure directly at issue.
Litigation strategy, commercial court proceedings, and dedicated trial counsel to support or replace outside counsel mid-file.
Shareholder disputes, partnership breakdowns, and business-divorce exits that threaten the enterprise.
Commercial disputes that threaten value, control, or continuity of the business.
Debt recovery, judgment enforcement, and receivership-adjacent commercial claims.
Lenders, investment vehicles, brokerages, and financial intermediaries in disputes involving lending, guarantees, financial products, and counterparty performance.
Senior executives and professionals facing personal liability exposure, restrictive-covenant disputes, or regulatory and investigative scrutiny.
Businesses facing financial distress, court-appointed receivers, and forensic professionals requiring litigation support for recovery, enforcement, and investigative mandates.
The consequences of retaining the wrong litigation counsel are vastly more expensive than retaining the right one.
The lawyer who assesses your matter remains accountable for its strategic direction and advocacy. Senior counsel is not a selling point at intake; it is how the mandate is run.
Mayssia Elajami founded ME Law to focus on complex, high-stakes disputes for boards, executives, companies, lenders, investors, and private principals. Her practice includes commercial court litigation, cross-border proceedings, arbitration, urgent injunctions, asset preservation, and business disputes requiring decisive litigation strategy.
Priority Disputes CounselFor organizations with recurring or emerging dispute risk, ME Law is available to discuss tailored strategic litigation retainer arrangements.
Priority access · early risk assessment · urgent-response planningA selection of anonymised commercial mandates, described by commercial context, strategic response, and outcome. Figures reflect the scale of matters handled, not a promise of a particular result.
A Silicon Valley-backed venture faced dissipation of assets across jurisdictions following a suspected commercial fraud. An urgent Mareva injunction was paired with cross-border asset tracing.
A minority shareholder was frozen out of a profitable company. An oppression remedy was leveraged toward a court-supervised buyout.
A governance breakdown between co-founders threatened control of a profitable operating company. A consolidated litigation and negotiation strategy was executed.
A defaulting counterparty attempted to shield assets from a commercial judgment. Enforcement proceedings, including examinations in aid of execution and asset tracing, secured recovery.
A $2M+ breach of contract dispute that could not be settled. Trial-ready preparation and decisive advocacy at the hearing.
A commercial dispute spanning foreign counterparties and forums. Coordinated arbitration with enforcement planning across borders.
Matters are anonymised to protect client confidentiality. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results; outcomes vary according to the facts of each matter.
Clients do not purchase hours. They purchase preparation, judgment, and execution — and how a litigation-only boutique delivers them differs on every factor that decides a business dispute.
| Traditional Approach | Compared | ME Law |
|---|---|---|
| High volume | Caseload | Deliberately limited |
| Delegated to juniors | Senior Lawyer Involvement | Senior counsel throughout |
| Standard intake | Strategic Intake | Strategic case assessment |
| Settlement-oriented | Trial Readiness | Prepared for trial from day one |
| Legal lens only | Business Perspective | Commercial & legal lens |
| Domestic focus | Cross-Border Experience | International & cross-border |
| Rarely | International Arbitration | Domestic & international |
| Through associates | Client Access | Direct to lead counsel |
| Variable | Preparation Standard | Institutional-grade |
“They understood the commercial stakes immediately and moved decisively. We had an injunction in place before the other side realised what had happened.”
“Senior counsel handled our file personally from the first call to resolution. The strategy was clear, and the outcome protected everything we had built.”
“When a counterparty defaulted, we needed counsel who could move on enforcement immediately — not after another round of internal sign-off. They did.”
Every commercial mandate follows a deliberate sequence, calibrated to commercial court case management where the matter qualifies. You always know where your matter stands and what comes next.
A confidential assessment of your matter with senior counsel.
Candid analysis of merits, risk, exposure, and realistic paths.
A tailored plan built around your commercial objectives.
Resolution pursued from a position of prepared strength.
Motions, discovery, and interlocutory relief, pressed decisively.
Decisive advocacy at hearing — or settlement on your terms.
Three anonymised mandates, told from problem to outcome.
A key supplier unilaterally stopped performance mid-term, threatening the client's production schedule and downstream customer commitments.
An urgent motion sought interim performance while a claim for damages and, in the alternative, cover costs was advanced.
A negotiated resolution secured replacement supply and full recovery of the client's cover costs.
In supply disputes, operational continuity and legal leverage have to move together.
Two co-founders reached an irreconcilable deadlock over control of a profitable operating company.
An oppression application was framed to protect the client's economic interest while preserving the value of the business.
A court-supervised buyout at fair value, without a value-destroying public battle.
Deadlock is a governance problem before it is a legal one — structure decides the exit.
A borrower defaulted on a seven-figure commercial loan and began moving assets out of reach of enforcement.
Summary judgment was pursued in parallel with examinations in aid of execution and targeted asset tracing.
Judgment was obtained and recovery secured before the debtor could further dissipate assets.
Enforcement strategy has to begin the moment default is confirmed, not after.
Sector fluency matters when contracts, capital, regulatory frameworks, and control are on the line. The industries below reflect commercial contexts in which focused litigation strategy is frequently required.
Shareholder and derivative actions, governance disputes, and director and officer liability exposure.
Shareholder deadlocks, partnership breakdowns, and business-divorce disputes that threaten control or value.
Loan enforcement, guarantee claims, receivership, and priority disputes among competing creditors.
Governance failures, related-party transactions, control conflicts, and portfolio-company disputes.
Founder and shareholder conflicts, investment disputes, and commercial contract breaches.
Supply agreement breaches, distribution and franchise disputes, and delivery or quality claims.
Joint-venture disputes, ownership and title conflicts, and commercial lease and development disputes.
Cross-border enforcement, arbitration, and multi-jurisdiction asset tracing and preservation.
Carrier, charter, freight, supply-chain, insurance, and cross-border performance disputes where continuity and time-sensitive remedies matter.
Distribution, licensing, supply, commercial partner, confidentiality, and regulatory-adjacent disputes requiring disciplined management of technical and reputational risk.
Boards, CFOs, and general counsel come to ME Law when a commercial dispute puts real balance-sheet exposure, control of the business, or a critical counterparty relationship at risk. We know that, and every mandate is run accordingly: senior counsel on the file, a deliberately limited caseload, and preparation to an institutional standard.
Engagements begin with a confidential strategic assessment — merits, risk, exposure, and the realistic paths forward, stated plainly. From there, strategy is built around your commercial objectives, not around process. We work alongside in-house legal teams where one exists, and you always know where your matter stands.
Legal spend gets scrutinized by the people who hire us, and it should be. We track our own performance the way a CFO would: recoveries secured, judgments enforced, exposure closed out, and matters resolved on terms that serve the business — not hours logged.
Answers to the most common questions about commercial litigation and commercial courts. Browse by topic, search our knowledge base, or explore related resources.
It may. Many jurisdictions have specialised commercial courts or lists for insolvency, receivership, corporate, securities and other complex commercial disputes, with judges experienced in business matters and active case management. Eligibility is usually set by the type of proceeding or the legislation involved, not simply by the amount in dispute. We assess at the outset where your dispute should be brought, since the forum materially affects how the case is managed.
Urgent injunctive relief can often be sought within days; complex commercial disputes may run one to three years or more through discovery, motions, and trial. Early strategy — and, where available, summary judgment — can shorten the path.
Expectation damages — the amount needed to put the business in the position performance would have achieved — plus consequential losses that were reasonably foreseeable. A duty to mitigate applies, and the contract itself may limit or liquidate damages.
Through examinations of the debtor about their assets, execution against real and personal property, garnishment of debts owed to the debtor, and, where assets are being concealed or moved, receivership and Mareva relief.
Breach of contract, shareholder and governance disputes, business torts, civil fraud, debt recovery and enforcement, commercial arbitration, and proceedings in commercial courts — including disputes with a cross-border dimension.
Boards, CFOs, general counsel, business owners, and lenders — private and closely held companies as well as larger institutional clients facing high-value commercial litigation.
Commercial litigation is billed at senior counsel rates that reflect the stakes and complexity involved. We are transparent about fees from the first consultation and scope each mandate to the matter.
In most common-law courts, the unsuccessful party is usually ordered to pay a portion of the successful party's legal costs, though recovery is rarely complete. Some legal systems — the United States is the best-known example — generally leave each side to bear its own legal fees unless a contract or statute provides otherwise. In arbitration, costs follow the applicable rules and the tribunal's discretion.
It depends on the court and on the contract. Some courts require parties to attempt mediation before a case goes further, and many commercial contracts require negotiation or mediation before litigation or arbitration can begin. Even where it is not required, mediation is often strategically worthwhile before trial.
Sometimes. Specific performance is available where damages would be an inadequate remedy — typically where the subject matter is unique, such as particular land or shares in a private company. It is a discretionary, equitable remedy that turns on the circumstances.
Common-law courts read the words of the contract as a whole, in light of the surrounding circumstances the parties knew when they contracted (the factual matrix), the commercial context and commercial common sense — without letting that context overwhelm the words the parties actually chose.
A claim brought by a shareholder on behalf of the corporation itself, generally requiring leave of the court, to pursue a wrong done to the company that the company itself has failed to pursue.
Civil fraud is a claim for loss caused by deliberate deceit — a false representation made knowingly or recklessly and relied upon. Remedies include damages, tracing, and urgent preservation orders such as Mareva injunctions.
Move quickly. Courts can freeze assets through Mareva injunctions, compel third parties such as banks to disclose information through Norwich orders, appoint receivers, and trace funds through corporate structures — including across borders.
Demand letters, summary judgment where the debt is undisputed, default judgment where there is no defence, and — once judgment is obtained — seizure and sale of the debtor's property, garnishment, and examinations of the debtor about their assets.
Litigation is resolved in the public courts; arbitration is a private, contract-based process before a neutral arbitrator. ME Law acts in both, domestically and internationally, and assesses which forum governs your dispute.
Rights of appeal from arbitral awards are narrow and are often excluded by the arbitration agreement. Set-aside applications are limited to specific grounds such as jurisdiction and procedural fairness — which is why the arbitration itself must be run to win.
Often, yes — but appeals are limited to specific grounds and strict deadlines, and are not a re-argument of the facts. We assess prospects candidly before recommending an appeal.
It depends on the court and the jurisdiction, and appeal periods are short — in many courts a matter of weeks from the order or judgment — with different timelines where permission (leave) to appeal is required. Appellate deadlines are strict, so advice should be obtained immediately.
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Ask a Question →We accept mandates where dedicated litigation counsel can make a material difference. That is why each engagement begins with a rigorous strategic assessment.
ME Law is retained for complex commercial, shareholder, contractual, financial, arbitration, and urgent-relief mandates. If the matter affects your organization’s assets, governance, commercial position, or enterprise value, we invite you to request a confidential consultation.
For organizations with recurring or emerging dispute risk, we are also available to discuss a tailored Priority Disputes Counsel arrangement.
