Company; LLP & Partnership; Insolvency & Restructuring; Commercial; Commercial Fraud; Chancery; Property & Trusts

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)

- Commercial fraud

- Law of Property Act receiverships.

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.

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), “Directors’ Duties in Times of Change” (R3’s Recovery newsletter) and “Restructuring Plans and HMRC: Recent Developments” (R3 update 2023)

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)

Chancery Bar Association Northern Business and Property Bar Association (Vice-Chair) Insolvency Lawyers’ Association (full member) R3 fellow (full member).

MA Cantab (Law), University of Cambridge (Jesus College) Inns of Court School of Law, London The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Music, golf, swimming and theatre. Lisa is fluent (conversational) in French and German.