Mr Darren Kidd > Clarke Willmott LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Darren Kidd
Work Department
Financial Litigation
Position
Darren is an experienced litigator specialising in high value and complex disputes.
He has experience across a broad range of domestic and international matters, including in banking / financial services, fraud, insolvency, professional negligence and tax. He has particular experience of structuring and progressing group litigation and litigation funding.
Darren has acted for a variety of clients, including high net worth individuals, airlines, banks, financial authorities, hedge funds, insolvency practitioners, insurance companies, law firms, telecommunications companies and trustees.
Darren’s experience includes working internationally and in-house. During his time at Herbert Smith Freehills, Darren completed a one-year secondment to the firm’s Melbourne office and a nine-month secondment to one of the ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms.
How Darren can help you
Experience
- At his previous firm, Stewarts, Darren’s caseload included advising over 350 individuals, a number of whom are well-known personalities, in group litigation involving claims in fraudulent misrepresentation, conspiracy and negligence against various parties including a number of large banks. The claims arose from investments in various tax-efficient investment vehicles focused on films and video games. The case was listed in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2018 and 2022.
- Darren has also acted for the liquidators of two BVI companies in relation to €500 million claims against Deutsche Bank AG and others concerning complex financial derivatives linked to the Icelandic bank, Kaupthing hf.
Career
Melbourne, Australia
London, United Kingdom
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Insurance > Professional negligence
The ‘strong team’ at Clarke Willmott LLP is active across the gamut of claimant-side mandates, and fields a group of sector specialists who bring their expertise to specific areas of the work. ‘Brilliant’ commercial litigator Alex Jakubowski 
takes the lead on acting for lenders in high-value cases against solicitors and surveyors arising from complex transactions. Darren Kidd, who joined from Stewarts Law LLP in September 2023, now leverages his contentious financial services experience to oversee pension and investment advice claims. Chris Taylor is the name to note for negligence in relation to property transactions, while Esther Woolford is key for claims in an agricultural context.