Serle Court

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 (he has appeared in a number of landmark unfair prejudice petitions and derivative claims), company law (including in matrimonial proceedings), insolvency, civil fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence.

Shortlisted for Company/Insolvency Silk of the Year in the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards in both 2024 and 2026 and shortlisted for Chancery Silk of the Year in the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2026, Daniel is recommended in Band 1 for Silks for Company by both Chambers UK, 2026 and the Legal 500, 2026 – and in Band 1 for Chancery Commercial by Chambers.

Daniel is a co-author of two leading practitioner textbooks, contributing two chapters (on derivative claims and unfair prejudice petitions) to Joffe et al., Minority Shareholders: Law, Practice & Procedure and chapters 12 (duties & liabilities of administrators), 13 (duties & liabilities of receivers) and 29 (court receivers appointed by the court) to Lightman & Moss, The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies.

Called to the Bar 1995. King's Counsel 2016.

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

Magdalen College, Oxford (BA Hons, Double First, Literae Humaniores); City University (Dip Law with Distinction).  Hardwicke, Mansfield and Denning Scholar of Lincoln's Inn.

Cricket - co-author of Cricket Grounds from the Air (2nd Ed. 2010) and has written articles on cricket for publications including Wisden, The Cricketer, Nightwatchman, The Spectator and Majesty Magazine, as well as curating the current (and first ever) exhibition at the MCC Museum, Lord's, on Cricket and the Jewish Community.