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About
Provided by Lisa Linklater KC
Practice Areas
Lisa Linklater KC specialises in litigation and related advisory work in the following practice areas:
- Shareholder disputes (unfair prejudice petitions, just and equitable winding up petitions, derivative claims and breaches of shareholder agreements)
- Partnership and LLP disputes
- Joint venture disputes
- Claims against directors
- Corporate insolvency and restructuring (administrations, liquidations, CVAs, and restructuring plans)
- Contractual claims (particularly share and business sale agreements)
- Law of Property Act receiverships
- Proprietary estoppel
Lisa is acclaimed for her excellent and versatile written and oral advocacy at trial, in mediation, on appeal and in applications. She is an extremely effective trial advocate, skilled in cross-examination of both factual and expert witnesses, including forensic accountants.
Lisa served as Junior Counsel to the Crown (Attorney General’s Regional Panel) for three consecutive terms and was regularly instructed by BEIS and HM Revenue and Customs in many precedent-setting cases.
Career
- Silk (2022)
- Vice-Chair of the Northern Business and Property Bar Association (2023)
- Attorney General’s Regional Panel of Counsel (2000 - 2018)
- Accredited Mediator (CEDR)
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, Northern Business and Property Bar Association (Vice-Chair), Insolvency Lawyers’ Association (full member) and R3 fellow (full member).
Publications
Member of the editorial advisory board of the Company Lawyer (Sweet and Maxwell). Recent articles include “Shareholder Disputes: Unfair Prejudice Petitions and the Art of Share Valuation” (Solicitors’ Journal, August 2022) and “Directors’ Duties in Times of Change” (R3’s Recovery newsletter).