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Daniel Oudkerk KC KC
Position
Daniel Oudkerk QC has a broad-based trial and advisory practice. He is recognised as a leading silk in employment and commercial dispute resolution. He is often instructed in commercial claims with an employment or regulatory ‘twist’ and in partnership disputes involving competition issues. He has very substantial experience of financial services sector litigation. His clients range from hedge funds, IDBs, investment banks, insurers and regulators to individuals. He is routinely instructed in claims involving applications for urgent injunctive relief, multi-jurisdictional conspiracies, team moves, employee fraud, confidential information actions and bonus claims. His general commercial practice includes CIS work, fraud, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes and partnership disputes.
Career
Called 1992, Inner Temple; Silk 2010.
Memberships
COMBAR; ELBA; ELA; ILS; LCIA.
Education
University of Bristol (1990 LLB Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Daniel Oudkerk KC – Essex Court Chambers ‘Daniel is a great tactician and an exceptional silk. A go-to name for team move cases.’
The ‘excellent‘ team at Essex Court Chambers handles a broad spectrum of employment law matters, including discrimination claims, restrictive covenant disputes and cross-border team move cases. The ‘calm and confident‘ David Craig KC continues to act in a wide range of complex contentious matters, often before the Employment Tribunal. Daniel Oudkerk KC is ‘brilliant and extraordinarily strategic‘, with established strength in advising on wrongful dismissal cases and whistleblowing claims. Charles Ciumei KC regularly handles restrictive covenant cases for clients in the financial services sector, and Andrew Hochhauser KC is ‘a formidable advocate and an exceptional strategist‘. At the junior end of chambers, Jane Russell is highly regarded for her specialist expertise in discrimination matters, including belief, maternity and sex discrimination claims.
London Bar > Crypto and blockchain assets
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Daniel Oudkerk KC – Essex Court Chambers ‘Daniel has a fantastic ability to take on board a huge amount of information and convey it in a persuasive manner. He is terrific on his feet. Clients love him and the way in which he is able to advise and guide them through the most complicated issues.’
Essex Court Chambers provides members which are skilled in a large variety of crypto based services, with James Collins KC involved in a number of crypto and blockchain cases, including FTX Digital Markets, where he was instructed by the liquidators in the Bahamas of FTX as their legal expert in relation to digital assets. Daniel Oudkerk KC has expertise advising a range of clients from cryptocurrency traders, to technology companies, hedge funds and investment banks, as well as being involved in some of the developing areas of technology law including cryptocurrency-related arbitration claims. Alexander Riddiford and Wei Jian Chan are key juniors from the set.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Daniel Oudkerk KC –Essex Court Chambers ‘Daniel provides flawless substantive advice and advocacy.’
Essex Court Chambers stands out as a ‘strong set with an excellent reputation and quality advocates’, handling a myriad of substantial commercial litigation including civil fraud, insurance, banking and finance, and shipping-related work. In NMC Healthcare v Shetty, Ruth Den Besten KC is defending the founder of NMC Healthcare amidst allegations of fraudulent activity following the Middle Eastern hospital group’s collapse into administration in 2020. Joe Smouha KC is leading Ciaran Keller in Nex Group Limited’s defence against TP ICAP, a case relating to the non-disclosure of alleged liabilities arising from the German cum-ex trading scandal. In another high-profile matter, Nathan Pillow KC and Tim Akkouh KC are representing Eurasian Natural Resources Company in claims against Dechert LLP, Neil Gerrard, and the Serious Fraud Office, pertaining to the SFO’s investigation into and the solicitors firm’s advice about alleged corruption in ENRC’s international operations. Daniel Oudkerk KC is representing hundreds of thousands of claimant vehicle owners in six separate group actions concerning diesel emissions against major motor manufacturers. Adding to the chambers’ distinguished roster, David Peters KC and James Sheehan KC were elevated to silk status in March 2024 and Paul Stanley KC was appointed Deputy High Court Judge with effect from January 2023.