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UK Bar Guide 2023

Ranked in 5 Practice Areas
2
Chancery: Commercial
21 Years Ranked
2
Company
20 Years Ranked
4
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Provided by Daniel Lightman KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

As part of a broad Chancery-Commercial practice, Daniel Lightman KC often engages with challenging and novel issues of law and civil procedure, in particular concerning company law (including in matrimonial proceedings), minority shareholder litigation, civil fraud, insolvency, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence.

Recent significant cases include: Re BHS Group Ltd [2022] 2 BCLC 145; Re Klimvest plc [2022] BCC 747; Taylor Goodchild Ltd v Taylor [2022] 2 BCLC 27; King v Stiefel [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 990; Re Dinglis Properties Ltd [2021] 1 All ER 685; Christoforou v Christoforou [2020] EWHC 1196 (Ch); and Re G&G Properties Ltd [2020] Bus LR 762.

Career

Called to the Bar 1995. King's Counsel 2016.

Professional Memberships

ACTAPS, Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, Family Law Bar Association and Insolvency Lawyers' Association.

Publications

Author of two chapters (on derivative claims and unfair prejudice petitions) of Joffe, Minority Shareholders: Law, Practice & Procedure (6th Ed, 2018) and of chapters 12 (duties & liabilities of administrators), 13 (duties & liabilities of receivers) & 29 (court-appointed receivers) of Lightman & Moss, The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies (6th Ed, 2017). Recent publications include: ‘Unparalleled Circumstances’ (NLJ, 31 July 2020) and ‘One Way Bets and Straining at Gnats: Fixing a Fair Valuation Date in Unfair Prejudice Petitions’ (BJIBFL, Dec 2018, pp 678 - 681).

Personal

BA Lit. Hum. (First Class), Magdalen College, Oxford; Dip. Law (Distinction), City University, London. Hardwicke, Mansfield and Denning Scholar of Lincoln's Inn. Co-author of Cricket Grounds from the Air (2nd Ed. 2010).

Chambers Review

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Chancery: Commercial - London (Bar)
2
Band 2

Daniel Lightman KC


Company - London (Bar)
2
Band 2

Daniel Lightman KC
Daniel Lightman KC often acts in company law cases and is an expert in minority shareholder cases. His areas of expertise also cover derivative claims and Section 994 petition proceedings, and he has wider experience in corporate insolvency work.


Commercial Dispute Resolution - London (Bar)
4
Band 4

Daniel Lightman KC


Professional Negligence - London (Bar)
4
Band 4

Daniel Lightman KC
Daniel Lightman KC offers experience in major professional negligence matters across a broad range of professions, including barristers, solicitors and financial services. He combines this with academic activity, contributing to several reference texts.


Restructuring/Insolvency - London (Bar)
4
Band 4

Daniel Lightman KC
Daniel Lightman KC is widely admired for his vast experience and adept representation of all parties in bankruptcy and insolvency cases. He has experience representing litigants in disputes with insolvency office holders and is noted for his expertise advising on cases involving a novel or unusual point of law. Interviewees particularly highlight his standout technical ability and deft handling of complex cases.

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