Chancery: Traditional
London (Bar)
1 year ranked
INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Donald Lilly KC
High Net Worth 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
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Practice Areas
Chancery Commercial, including Company Law and personal and corporate Insolvency, with a particular emphasis on disputes involving offshore and civil fraud aspects. Recent reported cases include: Magomedov v TPG Group [2026] EWHC 1051 (Comm) & [2025] EWHC 59 (Comm), Wang v Tianjin Lantian Gerui [2024] EWHC 2059 (Ch), Sian Participation v Domidias [2024] EWHC 458 (Comm), Gill v Thind [2023] EWCA Civ 1276, SFO v Harbour Fund II LLP [2022] EWHC 3053 and Faulkner v Vollin Holdings Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1371.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association and COMBAR.
Called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands (2013)
Called (on a case specific basis) to the Bar of Gibraltar (2019).
Called (on a case specific basis) to the Bar of Bermuda (2026)
Publications
“Investigations by BIS”, Tolley’s Company Law Service
“It’s a real privilege: common interests in trust disputes”. Trusts and Trustees, T. & T. 2013, 19(1), 68-78.
“A Tale of Two Insolvencies”, Butterworth’s Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, (2012) 6 JIBFL 348.
Featured in The Lawyer, “Judgment Call”, 21 May 2012.
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Donald Lilly KC of 4 Stone Buildings focuses his practice on contentious high-value matters. He is experienced in cross-border trust litigation and insolvency cases.
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He has a brilliant legal mind seeing through the most complicated of problems; he is a real force.
Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net WorthDonald is simply superb. He is extremely helpful and hyper bright, but importantly, what differentiates him from other barristers is that he's incredibly helpful and thinks outside the box.
Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net WorthDonald provides an excellent general level of service. He is responsive, polite and sensitive to clients' needs. He demonstrates top-notch technical knowledge.
Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net WorthDonald is simply outstanding. He remains a go‑to barrister for complex and high‑stakes disputes. He combines exceptional legal analysis with calm authority and excellent judgement, and clients have real confidence in him. His recent appointment to silk was thoroughly well deserved, and he has taken it in his stride, continuing to add real value both in court and on strategy.
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