Daniel Lightman KC

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 shareholder disputes, company law (including in matrimonial proceedings), insolvency, civil fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence.

Recent significant cases include: Re Klimvest plc [2023] 1 BCLC 388; In re BHS Group Ltd (in liquidation) [2022] Bus LR 1510; Taylor Goodchild Ltd v Taylor [2022] 2 BCLC 27; Re Prospect Place (Wimbledon) Management Co Ltd [2022] BCC 1176; King v Stiefel [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 990; and Re Dinglis Properties Ltd [2021] 1 All ER 685.

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

Contribute chapters on derivative claims and unfair prejudice petitions to Joffe, Minority Shareholders: Law, Practice & Procedure and chapters on duties and liabilities of administrators and receivers to Lightman & Moss, The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies. Recent publications include: ‘The light at the end of the tunnel and the last throw of the die: liquidators’ claims against former directors following Sequana’ (IIRR 2023-24), ‘Pleading Issues: Pick Your Battles’ (NLJ, 27 January 2023), ‘Unparalleled Circumstances’ (NLJ, 31 July 2020) and ‘Restricting Evidence and Cross-Examination’ (NLJ, 3 July 2020).

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).