Guto Llewelyn (Capital Law)

Guto Llewelyn

Partner
Commercial Disputes

Guto is a Partner in our Commercial Disputes team. He resolves a wide range of commercial disputes, with an emphasis on business disputes, intellectual property, insolvency, and insurance disputes. 

Guto has acted in high value contractual disputes, urgent injunction applications and complex intellectual property matters including copyright and trade mark infringement, breach of confidence and passing off. Over the past 7 years, he has led Capital’s Debt Recovery team and his aptitude for resolving disputes is an asset that seeps into his debt recovery advice.

He has experience of leading a team of lawyers through a variety successful campaigns; from projects involving recovering thousands of historic debts, to dealing with a complicated High Court claim against the Welsh Government worth over £4m. That claim was funded through our own litigation fund, Capital Dispute Finance.

We used Capital Collect to recover a large debt owed to us by an international company who were ignoring our requests for payment.  The service was handled by Guto Llewelyn who was very clear and decisive – his strategy worked perfectly and we were paid every single penny, plus interest and costs within 4 days of his involvement.   We were particularly impressed by the cost effectiveness of Capital Collect and the fact that this great service is run by a team of experienced lawyers, who provided us with valuable advice at the outset.

Gloria Crichlow, in-house Counsel for Fuels Europe (the European Petroleum Refiners Association)

  • Acting for a training company on their £4.5m claim against a public sector organisation for unpaid training invoices. This case was successfully settled at mediation and was funded through our litigation fund, Capital Dispute Finance.
  • Acting for a former company director on a complicated £1m claim for misappropriation of company funds.
  • Acting for a crematorium provider on a complex trademark infringement claim, this included an urgent injunction application in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.
  • Acting for a private school on all its debt claims, maintaining a 100% recovery rate over 6 years.
  • General commercial disputes
  • Debt recovery and enforcement
  • Employment related litigation
  • Contractual disputes
  • Bankruptcy and Insolvency
  • Intellectual property disputes
  • IT disputes
  • Insurance disputes

Career

  • Partner, Capital Law Limited (May 2020 – present)
  • Senior Associate, Capital Law Limited (Nov 2018 – April 2020)
  • Associate, Capital Law Limited (2016 – Nov 2018)
  • Solicitor, Capital Law LLP (2011 – 2016)
  • Trainee Solicitor, Capital Law LLP (2009 – 2011)

Education

  • Cardiff University: LPC (2008 – 2009)
  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (2004 – 2007)

Memberships

  • The Law Society of England and Wales
  • Board member of Street Football Wales

Languages

  • Welsh