Partnership disputes are common in professional and non-professional spheres. Legal, accounting and taxation issues make them extremely complex to resolve and this book provides guidance that will be invaluable to professional advisors trying to resolve disputes and to those involved.

It aims to answer the transactional questions involved by making reference to invaluable precedent materials that go to the heart of partnership disputes.

Details the legal fundamentals of partnership creation and the legal obligations of partners
Explains how disputes can and do arise
Provides a guide to the cause of disputes and a ‘best practice’ for avoiding them and providing for them in the partnership agreement
Presents model partnership agreements
Guides the reader through the provisions of often used partnership agreements looking at the seminal case of Phoenix v Pope concerning such agreements
Provides industry specific examples of successful partnership agreements with specific emphasis on dispute clauses
Addresses the nature of mediation / arbitration clauses and how they operate to diffuse / contain partnership disputes
Looks at the effect of mediator’s statements and arbitral proceedings
Explains what happens if parties are dissatisfied with mediation and the institution of court proceedings.
Provides transactional precedents, from incepting partnerships to mediation notices and notices of instructions

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