Case Closed: £110,000 Recovered in Transfer Fee Dispute

When a senior consultant left a recruitment agency and joined a competitor, the entire pool of locum workers they managed was soon transferred across too, leaving the agency owed £185,000 in transfer fees. The complication was that the account disputing those fees formed part of a broader group worth far more to the business than the invoices themselves, so pursuing the full amount through the courts risked fracturing a relationship the agency could not afford to lose. That left them with a difficult choice between chasing what they were owed and protecting the business they still relied on.

So how do you recover what you are owed without losing the relationship in the process? That is exactly the position recLAW was brought in to solve and the outcome shows why the biggest win is not always the biggest number.