Donald Lilly

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: SFO v Harbour Fund II LLP [2022] EWHC 3053, Gill v Thind [2022] EWHC 2871 (Ch) (also instructed for the appeal), Faulkner v Vollin Holdings Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1371 (and first instance reported at [2021] EWHC 787 (Ch)), Maso Capital Investments Ltd v Shanda Games Ltd [2020] BCC 466, Patel v Iqbal [2020] EWHC 1174 (Ch).

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).

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.