7 King's Bench Walk

Year of Call: 2016

encompassing insurance and reinsurance; professional negligence; civil fraud; shipping and general commercial disputes.

Daniel is also a mediator (CEDR-accredited and a Registered Mediator with the Civil Mediation Council) and accepts instructions as a mediator across a broad range of commercial disputes.

Daniel has particular expertise in insurance and reinsurance. He has acted (both led and as sole counsel) in a wide variety of insurance and reinsurance disputes, and spent eight months on secondment at the insurance and reinsurance team of a leading London firm. Daniel’s expertise has been recognised by The Legal 500, which ranks him as a leading junior (band 3) in this area.

Much of Daniel’s work has an international dimension, and he has experience of jurisdiction and private international law issues. Daniel is also a fluent Spanish speaker.

Examples of Daniel’s recent work include:

• Acting for Dubai Aerospace (one of the lead Claimants) in the Russian Aircraft Litigation. In the trial of claims under the “Lessor Policies”, Daniel’s clients successfully argued that the decision to retain leased aircraft in Russia was covered as a War Risk peril (amongst other points).

• Junior counsel in major reinsurance arbitrations concerning coverage for aggregated losses arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Sole counsel in a claim for Covid-19 Business Interruption losses, applying the High Court and Supreme Court judgments in the FCA Test Case.

• Junior counsel in a major commodities arbitration relating to Russian sanctions imposed by the UK and other jurisdictions.

• Various applications in the Commercial Court, including an urgent interim application for the payment of a specified fund into court and an application for summary judgment on a defaulted loan.

Before commencing practice, Daniel spent five months as a full-time Judicial Assistant in the Commercial Court, assisting Judges with a variety of trials and procedural hearings, including sitting as the judicial assistant to Bryan J in the trial of National Bank Trust v Yurov & Others [2020] EWHC 100 (Comm), a fraudulent misappropriation claim brought by a Russian bank against its former directors and shareholders.

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