Sydney Fulda
Partner and head of dispute resolution
| Specialist areas: | Shareholder and partnership disputes; emergency injunctions; corporate litigation, banking and tax disputes; insolvency litigation; HMRC and other regulatory investigations, stockbroking litigation; asset and debt recovery. |
| Ideal for: | People or companies who want an effective solution – fighting your corner. |
| Background: | Sydney qualified as a lawyer in 1986 and trained at Livingstones before joining Alsop Wilkinson, now DLA, where he helped to establish the insolvency department. He has been a litigator throughout this period. He is also a qualified mediator and a member of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association and the Turnaround Management Association. |
| Career highlights: | Externally - overturning an HMRC worldwide freezing injunction. Internally - building up and working with a superb team of litigators. |
| They say: | ‘User friendly’ – Legal 500. ‘An aggressive litigator but very easy to get on with as an individual.’ – Chambers. ‘Realistic and sensible and unfailingly commercial.’ |
| We say: | Tactically astute and team driven. The fact that his clients include a number of his former opponents says it all. |
| Best piece of advice: | Do not litigate unless you have to! |
| Outside of work: | Sydney is married with four children. He has coached at junior/intermediate and senior levels at football and supports Derby County Football Club. He is a foundation governor of a primary school and chairs its opportunity fund for children with special needs. |
| Personal highlights: | Raising £500,000 for special needs children. |
| Likes: | Sport, history, walking in the Lakes and the Peak District, cinema and theatre. |
| Contact: | sydneyf@berg.co.uk |