Daniel Kessler

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation; company law; insolvency; civil fraud; commercial chancery disputes and banking and finance.

Daniel accepts instructions across the full spectrum of work undertaken by Chambers, including banking and finance, commercial litigation, company and insolvency litigation.

Daniel’s work has varied from applications to rectify the register of company charges to multi-million pound High Court litigation.

Recent public cases include:

Davies v Ford[2021] EWHC 2550 (Ch) (quantum); [2022] Costs L.R. 727 (costs); [2023] EWCA Civ 167 (appeal): breach of directors’ duties and remedies available. Daniel was led by Alexander Cook KC European Real Estate Debt Fund v Treon & Ors [2021] EWHC 2866 (Ch) (liability); [2022] Costs L.R. 461 (costs): multi-million pound fraud claim, limitation defence successful. Daniel was led by Bridget Lucas KC Toma v Murray[2020] EWHC 2295 (Ch): proprietary injunction restraining the dealing of bitcoin.

Daniel has written a guide to insolvency law for litigants in person, ‘Insolvency Law Made Clear’. He was appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel of Counsel in September 2022.

Balliol College, Oxford University (BA (Hons), Philosophy Politics and Economics, 2012)

University College London (MSc, Economics, 2015)

Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple