Tyr’s commercial litigation team is led by partner Alistair Kennedy, who specialises in dealing with high value and complex commercial disputes.
The team has a number of key clients and, due to us being largely conflict free, disputes are often referred by major law firms who trust that their clients will be given the highest quality advice, and attentive and committed representation.
The team has experience of all types of commercial disputes, having dealt with claims in the High Court and Appeal Courts, arbitration and mediation, and claims that challenge the decisions of public bodies by way of judicial review, including many cases with an international element and that have attracted significant press attention.
We understand and are ready to meet the needs of commercial clients who are involved in litigation with the potential to transform their businesses.
Alistair has been consistently ranked as one of the leading litigators in the market. He was most recently described in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500 as providing the “highest quality of legal and commercial advice” and in the 2025 edition of Chambers and Partners as taking “an excellent pragmatic problem-solving approach.”
Matthew Fidler has previously worked for two of the UK’s most prominent litigation practices and is described as “technically very gifted“ but his “real skill is his pragmatism and his ability to work with others on tricky issues and find sensible working solutions” (Legal 500 Guide 2025).
The team’s case experience includes:
- Acting for a wealthy property investor in a claim related to a failed joint venture that included allegations of fraud and professional negligence
- Acting for an international defendant on a multi-jurisdictional fraud claim valued at around £300m and concerning the auctioning of Russian Oil assets
- Acting for a property development company on a high value misrepresentation dispute against a peer to peer lender
- Acting for an Isle of Man trustee in a multi-jurisdictional dispute relating to the listing of a well-known company on the London Stock Exchange
- Acting for the beneficiaries of a trust fund in relation to a high value, cross border, trust dispute concerning various industrial properties
- Acting for an individual who was subject to a fraud claim by a major bank involving allegations of around £1bn of false invoices
- Acting for a group of UK retailers on cartel damages claims against MasterCard worth in excess of £1bn – Asda Stores Limited v MasterCard Inc [2017] EHWC 993 (Comm)
- Acting for a company and its shareholders in a high value claim against accountants for professional negligence
- Acting on a range of judicial review matters including reported cases R (on the application of Menston Action Group v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council) [2015] EWHC 2292 (Admin) and R (on the application of Leicester Gaming Club Ltd) v the Gambling Commission [2007] EWHC 531 (Admin)
“Tyr have a strong offering across their practice, with specialists in all the key areas. Their breadth and depth of team is excellent.”
“I have been impressed by Tyr’s level of client engagement and focus on the client’s needs, while also providing support to and listening to the advice of counsel.”
Chambers & Partners 2025 Guide (Yorkshire)
