Aron Heywood

Senior Associate

Aron specialises in commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in both insolvency and commercial litigation matters and has been advising clients in this area for over 15 years and displays integrity, technical expertise, and commercial acumen.

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Expertise

Aron acts for a wide range of clients across a broad variety of sectors including professional negligence, landlord and tenant disputes, insolvency litigation, contractual disputes, debt recovery and construction disputes. Aron is regularly retained by clients for his pragmatic and commercial approach to solving disputes.

Aron will always look at the objectives of his clients and, where possible, seek to resolve disputes in a way that minimises costs and attempts to avoid court proceedings. Where this is not possible, Aron is more than happy to conduct litigation with determination and where required, aggression to achieve the best possible outcome for his clients.

Aron has expertise dealing with all aspects of landlord and tenant work (acting for landlords with large portfolios, major industrial tenants as well as small standalone landlord and business tenants) including dealing with forfeiture, residential possession claims, trespasser claims, dilapidation claims and LTA renewals.

Recent Experience

Acting for a large fuel company in commencing insolvency proceedings involving a large number of competing creditors against a well-known formula 1 company that resulted in media coverage
Acting for a large recruitment company in pursuing a springboard injunction followed by a claim for breach of the terms of an employment contract and restrictive covenants when a senior member of staff left and attempted to use the client’s confidential information to set up a competing business.
Assisting a client in relation to a large number of lease renewal claims following the assignment of 60 industrial units following the acquisition of a rival company.
Representing a client in the recovery of possession of a large commercial premises for a client following 40 plus travellers gaining access and residing in the property during renovation works.
Assisting queens counsel in relation to the recovery of a sum more than $3 billion which involved complex proceedings in the High Court including an application to lift the corporate veil to pursue the director of the debtor company.
Pursuing a claim for a client in relation to a construction dispute where the building defects totalled more than £50,000.
Securing a search and seizure order to search the premises of an individual found guilty of selling forged LS Lowry paintings

Career History

Aron Joined Shammah Nicholls LLP in 2007 and later joined Linder Myers LLP in 2012 where he completed his training. Aron qualified in 2014 at which time he joined BBS LAW in the Commercial Litigation Team.

He has a Level 3 and Level 6 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice and was registered as a Chartered Legal Executive/CILEx Practitioner in April 2021.

Aron is also a Commissioner for Oaths.

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