7 King's Bench Walk

Year of Call: 2016

Daniel is a barrister specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration. He has a broad commercial practice with experience in insurance and reinsurance; professional negligence; civil fraud; shipping and general commercial disputes.

Daniel has particular experience in insurance and reinsurance. He has been instructed on various disputes in this field (both led and as sole counsel), and spent eight months on secondment at the insurance and reinsurance team of a leading London firm. Daniel’s expertise has been recognised by the Legal 500, which ranks him as a “rising star” in the field of insurance and reinsurance.

Much of Daniel’s work has an international dimension, and he has experience of jurisdiction and private international law issues. Daniel is also a fluent Spanish speaker.

Examples of Daniel’s recent work include:

• Yukos Finance BV & Others v Lynch & Others [2019] EWHC 2621: junior counsel in a dispute concerning an alleged conspiracy under Russian law to rig a bankruptcy auction. Resulted in a lengthy Commercial Court trial.
• Junior counsel in major reinsurance arbitrations concerning coverage for aggregated losses arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Sole counsel in a claim for Covid-19 Business Interruption losses in the County Court, applying the High Court and Supreme Court judgments in the FCA Test Case.
• Various applications in the Commercial Court, including an urgent interim application for the payment of a specified fund into court and an application for summary judgment on a defaulted loan.

Before commencing practice, Daniel spent five months working full-time as a Judicial Assistant in the Commercial Court, assisting Judges with a variety of trials and procedural hearings, including sitting as the judicial assistant to Bryan J in the trial of National Bank Trust v Yurov & Others [2020] EWHC 100 (Comm), a fraudulent misappropriation claim brought by a Russian bank against its former directors and shareholders.