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Alex Pay
Commercial Litigation & Insolvency Partner

Alex is an experienced commercial litigation lawyer acting for a range of institutional clients, corporate clients, public bodies and various businesses.

Alex graduated from the University of Sussex in 1980 and was awarded an LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol the following year. He qualified with Allen & Overy in London. Alex was formerly a partner in Morgan Cole in Cardiff before joining MLM at the start of 2006.

Whilst handling a broad range of contentious commercial matters, Alex has built up particular expertise in the finance and insolvency sectors. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals. He is also actively involved with the Society of Turnaround Professionals.

His commercial litigation experience includes contract disputes, negligent/fradulent misrepresentation claims, breach of warranty actions, intellectual property and IT disputes, professional negligence, construction disputes, director disqualification, minority shareholder actions and partnership disputes.

In terms of Court experience Alex is fully familar with all County Court and High Court procedures, together with mediation and arbitration. He has handled matters in the Court of Appeal and the International Court of Arbitration. He has acted on a number of multi-jurisdictional disputes.

On the insolvency side, Alex has acted for a range of insolvency practitioners both locally and outside of Wales on both personal and corporate insolvency matters. Alex also has experience of acting in areas such as wrongful trading, preference actions and officer conduct.

Married with two children, Alex lives in the Vale of Glamorgan. His recretional interests include golf, cinema and travel.

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