Pensions, Private Clients and Trusts, Professional Negligence, Financial Services and Banking, Employment and Discrimination, Insolvency and Restructuring, Commercial Litigation

Barrister specialising in Pensions, Private Clients and Trusts, Professional Negligence, Financial Services and  Banking, Employment and Discrimination, Insolvency and Restructuring, Commercial Litigation.

David E. Grant KC was called to the Bar, Inner Temple 1999 and took silk in 2022.

David E. Grant KC is a chancery and commercial practitioner with specialist expertise in pensions, trusts, tax, will and estates, professional negligence, financial services, asset recovery, insolvency and employment.

He has extensive advocacy experience in courts and tribunals up to the European Court of Justice. He has also attended numerous mediations and round table meetings in a wide variety of cases. David is happy as sole advocate, being led and/or leading a junior and enjoys the process of working in a team with his instructing solicitors.

David has been recommended in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 since 2007 and is described as “The go-to junior for Part 8 and professional negligence claims concerning pension schemes.”

His clients have included many leading business including the Atos Group, British Airways, BT, ITV, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, Aegon and Transport for London. He has also acted for the Pensions Protection Fund, the Pensions Regulator and the Pensions Ombudsman as well as leading professional service companies such as Aon, Mercer and Barnett Waddingham as well as various high net worth individuals.

David studied law at undergraduate and post-graduate level at the University of Oxford and lectured and tutored as SOAS and Queen Mary and Westfield College respectively. He has spoken extensively at domestic and international conferences

Basic Serbian, French

Chancery Bar Committee (Committee Member) Chancery Bar Academic Liaison sub-committee (Chair) Chancery Bar Mentoring sub-committee (Chair) Bar Council Race Panel member Inner Temple Pension Trustees (Trustee) Pensions Litigation Court Users Committee (Secretary) STEP (Full member)

Dollar Academy; Worcester College, Oxford University (BA Hons Jurisprudence 1st class; BCL); scholar of Worcester College; Inns of Court School of Law (major scholar of Inner Temple).

Rugby, reading, films, music, whisky.