Mr Daniel Kessler > Chambers of George Bompas KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Mr Daniel Kessler

Work Department

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

Position

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.

Career

Before coming to the Bar, Daniel worked as an economist from 2012 to 2017.

Called 2018, Middle Temple.

Called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands, 2021 

Appointed to the Attorney General ‘C’ Panel, 2022

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR

Education

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

University College London (MSc, Economics, 2015)

Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple