Nicolas’s practice is focused on shareholder disputes and directors and officers liability. He has cutting-edge expertise with respect to shareholder oppression remedies, including legal questions relating to business valuation, interpretation and application of shareholder agreements, enforcement of shotgun clauses, and the exercise of statutory and contractual rights of shareholders and directors. Besides acting in the context of judicial proceedings, he advises start-up businesses in relation to various issues they face in relation to financing and governance.
Nicolas also manages complex multijurisdictional commercial disputes raising issues of private international law, including proceedings involving foreign states. He has been involved in several important cases pertaining to the recognition of foreign judgments and arbitration awards.
He has extensive experience in extraordinary remedies such as injunctions and seizures, as well as Anton Piller (civil search warrants), Mareva (asset freezing) and Norwich (disclosure of information) orders.
