Exchange Chambers

Company, LLP & Partnership; Insolvency & Restructuring; Commercial; Commercial Fraud; Property & Trusts

Introduction and Expertise

Lisa Linklater K.C. is a leading silk with a very well established reputation nationally for her excellent advocacy, expertise, leadership, strategy and advice in complex and high value High Court litigation and applications in the Business and Property Courts, the Court of Appeal and in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. She is valued for her tenacity and resilience in high pressure situations.

Lisa specialises in the following practice areas in which she has practised for over 30 years:

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• Company, LLP and Partnership disputes, particularly shareholder disputes,

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• Insolvency and Restructuring,

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• Commercial Fraud,

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• Commercial Dispute Resolution and

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• Property and Trusts.

For further detail as to Lisa’s expertise and experience in these practice areas please refer to each of Lisa’s bespoke practice area CVs (see links above).

Lisa is particularly praised for her excellent and versatile advocacy in trials and substantial applications in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal. Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2026 notes “Her advocacy is top-notch and she is very persuasive” and “she is a clear and concise advocate”.

Legal 500 UK Bar 2026 states “Lisa is an accomplished silk. She gets to grips with complex cases with ease and pace. She is a pleasure to work with.” Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2026 further notes she is “very proactive, very knowledgeable” and “commercially aware”.

She is adept in cases involving expert evidence, particularly of a financial nature. She frequently acts in cases with an international dimension or which set a legal precedent.

Lisa is Vice-chair of the Northern Business and Property Bar Association.

Recommendations

Lisa has been recommended as a Band 1 silk for three consecutive years by both Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2026 and Legal 500 UK Bar 2026 in three practice areas – Commercial Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring and Chancery. Testimonials are in the recommendations section opposite. They recognise Lisa’s many skills and personal qualities that have cemented her reputation in heavyweight and high profile cases in silk.

Recent legal directories note: “She’s absolutely great in helping steer a matter to a successful conclusion and she’s not afraid of taking the plunge when you have to be decisive,” “Lisa is technically excellent” and “a formidable opponent”. Further, she is “pragmatic, intelligent, and always calm and considered,” as well as being “tenacious in battle”.

Experience, Skills and Personal Qualities

Lisa brings over 30 years of experience in advising and representing diverse clients including companies (plcs, SMEs and household names), banks and other lenders, high net worth individuals (often in their capacity as shareholders, directors, members of LLPs, partners or co-owners of commercial and residential property), insolvency practitioners (as office holders or LPA receivers), central government (Secretary of State for Business and Trade and HM Revenue and Customs), local government, sports clubs, solicitor firms and trustees of substantial trust funds.

Lisa has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, including in the technology, energy, financial services, property, retail, healthcare, construction, insurance, hospitality, education, sports and manufacturing sectors.

Lisa is valued for her excellent leadership skills: “she is always challenging us on aspects of the case we might not have thought of. She really raises the game of everyone working with her.”

Lisa frequently works with lawyers who are specialist in other legal jurisdictions (recent examples include Jersey, Isle of Man, Scotland, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia) or other silks and junior Counsel.

Further Expertise

Lisa is very widely published in her areas of specialism, as set out in the publications section. She is regularly invited to chair or speak on topical legal developments. In 2023 Lisa was chair of a prestigious panel of international experts at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime and in 2024 she chaired at the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Security Conference in Manchester. She was a keynote speaker at “Reforming Corporate Insolvency Law for the 21st century” in 2025, a joint collaboration between the Society of Legal Scholars and Lancaster University.

Recent presentations by Lisa at Exchange Chambers’ Insolvency and Commercial Litigation conferences include “In the Shadows? Fraud and Insolvency” (2025) and “Recent Developments in Corporate Litigation” (2024).

King’s Counsel (2022) Vice-Chair of the Northern Business and Property Bar Association (2023) Editorial Advisory Board of the Company Lawyer journal (published by Sweet & Maxwell) (member since 2010) Accredited Mediator (CEDR) Attorney General’s Regional Panel of Counsel (2000 – 2018)

French and German

Chancery Bar Association Northern Business and Property Bar Association (Vice-Chair) Insolvency Lawyers’ Association (full member) R3 fellow (association of business recovery professionals) (full member) The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple North Eastern Circuit Bar International Coordination Group (NBPBA and NE Circuit representative) Leeds BPC Forum (committee member)

MA Cantab (Law), University of Cambridge (Jesus College) Inns of Court School of Law, London The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Music, golf, swimming and theatre. Lisa is fluent (conversational) in French and German.