Effective San Diego Shareholder Dispute Attorneys

Are you searching for effective San Diego shareholder dispute attorneys? Are you in the midst of a legal dispute involving your rights or financial interests as a shareholder or investor in Southern California?

Decades of Experience Resolving Investor and Shareholder Disputes

The Watkins Firm has decades of experience resolving investor and shareholder disputes here in San Diego and across Southern California. We often represent a minority shareholder or investor who believes they are being underpaid on their holdings in a corporate investment. This can extend to being “frozen out” of crucial business decisions, and being denied access to critical business information and the corporation’s books. When there are major issues with controlling interests, corporate officers or the Board of Directors itself, the Watkins Firm helps shareholders to bring an appropriate action against those in control of the company, and in some cases on behalf of the corporation itself.

What Are Your Goals and Objectives?

The important thing to consider as a shareholder or investor is simply this: What are my goals and objectives for this situation?

Based upon your goals and objectives, the effective San Diego shareholder dispute attorneys at the Watkins Firm will craft a tiered strategy designed to accomplish those goals in the shortest period of time and in a cost-efficient manner. It may surprise you to learn that the skilled investment and shareholder dispute attorneys at the Watkins Firm are able to resolve the majority of these cases through effective negotiation. We take a unique approach to litigation that is specifically designed to get to the core of a dispute, establish common ground and bring a solution to the table quickly and effectively. Effective, leveraged negotiation is the fastest and least expensive route to resolving a shareholder or investor dispute.

Mediation and Arbitration or Trial

Mediation and arbitration are two potential time-saving and cost-efficient alternatives to a trial. When the case cannot be resolved through effective, leveraged negotiation a shareholder or investor dispute will require the services of a neutral “Mediator”, and our legal team represents you throughout this process while protecting your interests. Mediation is required prior to any trial in our Courts and is another cost-effective and timely tool to resolve part or all of the shareholder or investor dispute at hand. Mediation is also a confidential and private legal venue which keeps your personal and professional confidential information out of the public record.

In some cases, contracts between a company and its investors or shareholders require arbitration. Arbitration is a different form of legal venue with its own set of rules. The lawyers at the Watkins Firm have extensive experience in arbitration, and work to move things smoothly through the process while advancing your goals and objectives.

If the parties are not required to seek arbitration (or simply choose not to) the case may proceed to a trial. Ask about the Watkins Firm’s extensive, successful and proven track record at trial and how this experience will not only matter in the courtroom, but at every step of the dispute itself.