Lara Kuehl

Practice Areas

Lara has a commercial Chancery practice, which encompasses all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration, company law, insolvency, civil fraud and real property matters.

Lara has appeared in Court litigation and arbitrations in England and internationally in disputes relating to a range of industry sectors, frequently with a technological focus. Lara also has considerable experience of claims relating to the conduct of fiduciaries such as directors and trustees and shareholder/partnership disputes. Her clients include corporations, insolvency office holders, litigation funders, company directors, private individuals and the UK Government.

Lara is on the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown and represents the Government in commercial, company and insolvency matters.

Before coming to the Bar, Lara was previously a solicitor in the London commercial disputes team of Weil, Gotshal & Manges (a US firm) and a Cayman Islands attorney in the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency group at Maples and Calder.

Further details can be found at: https://selbornechambers.co.uk/barrister/lara-kuehl/

Career

Called 2012 (Lincoln’s Inn)

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR; Property Bar Association

Publications

The Decentralised Governance of Bitcoin: Truth or Myth? – Society for Computers and Law, May 2023

Case Note on Piroozzadeh v Persons Unknown & Ors – Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, July 2023

Personal

LLB (Hons), Durham University

LLM Corporate and Commercial Law, King’s College London

Admitted as a solicitor – 2007

Higher Rights of Audience (All Courts) – 2008

Diploma in International Arbitration, CIArb – 2017