During March of 2024 London Art Walls booked a large wall in Spitalfields for their client to paint an advertising mural for a Warner Brothers movie.

On May 8, 2024 when the client turned up to paint the mural they were met by a two Global Street Art artists and Joy, an administrator from Global Street Art who said that GSA owned the wall and that any work would be immediately painted over. 

The client explained that they had rented the wall and that Joy should speak to London Art Walls.  Instead of Global Street contacting London Art Walls, Philip Hulme, Head Of Development at Global Street Art texted the client that they should not personally pay Peter Mackeonis (owner of London Art Walls) any money as the booking had been the result of a 'side deal' with one of the owners of the wall, and that such an advice had been sent to The Art Wall Company's other clients.  Hulme's text threatened legal action against London Art Walls and offered the clients the option to pay £5,000 to be allowed to keep the mural on the wall. 

London Art Walls instructed their client, who had already lost 10 hours of the day, to go ahead and start painting, which they did, without further interference

On May 10, In support of their claim to own the wall, Joy at GSA emailed the client a signature page of an undated lease that failed to mention what dates the lease covered - and claiming their solicitor would be sending London Art Walls a 'cease and desist' letter.

On May 10 London Art Walls emailed Joy that GSA's behavior was illegal and that GSA had no right to interfere with a legitimate business. Attached to the email was proof that London Art Walls had booked, and paid for the wall, as they had done on a regular basis since 2018, direct with the leaseholder of the building that incorporated the wall.

On May 10 London Art Walls received an email from GSA's solicitor Victoria Camfield at Hamlins stating that she was 'reviewing the lease over the weekend and that she would reply on Monday.' Hamlin's email was also sent to the Hanbury wall's landlord, Lee Bofkin (GSA' CEO), Philip Hulme, London Art Wall's client and the client's client.

On May 11, London Art Walls's client competed the mural and it stayed up for the 17 days as booked,  and was painted out by the client on May 26.

On May 29 having not heard back from either GSA or their solicitors London Art Walls emailed GSA's solicitor for details of the lease and received the reply that they are not under instructions from GSA.

As of June 20, Global Street Art have yet to produce proof that they have leased the wall on Hanbury Street and London Art Walls has instructed solicitors to explore taking and an action against Lee Bofkin, Philip Hulme and GSA for defamation and interference with trade.

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