Nicholas Drukker

• Several business customers of High Street Banks who have been missold ‘cap and collar’ products. Nic has now concluded two of these successfully by way of negotiated settlements with the Banks concerned. Several more are pending.
• Underwriters’ agent pursuing recovery of funds from insolvency practitioners paid to third parties pursuant to fidelity bonds

Intellectual Property

• A leading international clinical scientist in connection with his strategy and licensing of a revolutionary medical innovation
• The sub-distributor of one of the world’s largest chemical companies in a dispute with its main UK distributor in respect of an allegation of several breaches of contract including infringement of intellectual property rights.

Manufacturing

• An Anglo German Industrial group on the drafting of a commission manufacturing agreement between a Dutch subsidiary of an US based global corporation and a German member of the Client group specifying English law.

Transport

• The proprietor of several main line locomotives on a wide range of legal issues including corporate structure, employment contracts, grant applications, creation of engineering subsidiaries and preparation of complex agreements for hire of locomotives to railways.
• A number of owners of classic motor cars in the successful recovery of their vehicles from failed and/or fraudulent restorers.
• A director of a motor vehicle trader in obtaining injunctive relief restraining former directors and employees of the company setting up a competing business.

Property

• A Landowner forced into a major boundary dispute by two neighbouring landowners and whose possession claim against them was successful.

Entrepreneurial Ventures

• The purchaser of a former chapel in North Wales including acting on the purchase, advising on the scheme for its renovation and extension, establishing a charitable corporate structure to operate the chapel as a going concern, drafting all necessary employment contracts and compliance policies for the company and creating a fresh charitable Trust for one of the users of the chapel.
• A Dutch manufacturer of micro-processing equipment on dispute with a Spanish telecommunications company arising from a sale and development agreement.

Employment

• A senior professor falsely accused of scientific misconduct and subjected to procedures improperly conducted by his University. Nic guided the Client through whistle-blowing, disciplinary and employment grievance procedures including relevant hearings resulting in his complete vindication.

Government Claims

• The owner of a substantial farm served by the National Coal Board with a Compulsory Rights Order to opencast mine the land for coal and by the Welsh Office with a Compulsory Purchase Order for a part of the land required for a trunk road by pass after the mining was complete. Nic recovered nearly £2m compensation by negotiation, a process which required 20 years and the issue of claims against the NCB and the WO in the Lands Tribunal. The claim under the Opencast Coal Act 1958 was the only one which has ever been litigated.

Private Client

• The beneficiary of a Will of a relative under the care of the Office of the Public Guardian in a successful contested Application to the Court of Protection to re-write the Will.

Insolvency

• The Court-appointed Receiver of a failed restaurant business owned by two litigating partners who had subsequently embroiled him in their dispute. Nic, who should have been appointed to advise him immediately after his own appointment, was instructed several weeks later, by which time he was in severe difficulties.