Darragh Connell

Practice Areas

Darragh is a much sought-after commercial barrister combining approachability with sensible, pragmatic advice and effective advocacy.

He has a busy commercial litigation practice with specific emphasis upon insolvency and asset recovery, civil fraud, contractual disputes and company law.

Darragh is at the forefront of developing the law in respect of cryptoassets and in respect of which he has been consistently ranked in Band 1 of Chambers UK Bar directory. He has appeared in many significant cases in this area, including AA v Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 3556 (Comm), [2020] 4 W.L.R. 35, [2020] 2 All E.R. (Comm) 704 where the Commercial Court held that digital assets such as Bitcoin could constitute property for the purposes of English law.