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Daniel Lightman KC

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Position

As part of a broad Chancery-Commercial practice, Daniel Lightman KC often engages with challenging and novel issues of law and civil procedure, in particular concerning shareholder disputes, company law (including in matrimonial proceedings), insolvency, civil fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence.

Recent significant cases include: Re Klimvest plc [2023] 1 BCLC 388; In re BHS Group Ltd (in liquidation) [2022] Bus LR 1510; Taylor Goodchild Ltd v Taylor [2022] 2 BCLC 27; Re Prospect Place (Wimbledon) Management Co Ltd [2022] BCC 1176; King v Stiefel [2022] 1 All ER (Comm) 990; and Re Dinglis Properties Ltd [2021] 1 All ER 685.

Career

Called to the Bar 1995. Queen’s Counsel 2016.

Languages

Hebrew.

Memberships

ACTAPS, Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, Family Law Bar Association, Insolvency Lawyers’ Association and PNBA.

Education

BA Lit. Hum. (First Class), Magdalen College, Oxford; Dip. Law (Distinction), City University, London. Hardwicke, Mansfield and Denning Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn.  Co-author of Cricket Grounds from the Air (2^nd Ed. 2010).

Leisure

Publications:

Author of two chapters (on derivative claims and unfair prejudice petitions) of Joffe, Minority Shareholders: Law, Practice & Procedure (6th Ed, 2018) and of chapters 12 (duties & liabilities of administrators), 13 (duties & liabilities of receivers) & 29 (court-appointed receivers) of Lightman & Moss, The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies (6th Ed, 2017).  Recent publications include: ‘Unparalleled Circumstances’ (NLJ, 31 July 2020) and ‘One Way Bets and Straining at Gnats: Fixing a Fair Valuation Date in Unfair Prejudice Petitions’ (BJIBFL, Dec 2018, pp 678 – 681).