Barristers

Donald Lilly

Donald Lilly

Position

Chancery Commercial, including Company Law and personal and corporate Insolvency, with a particular emphasis on disputes involving offshore and civil fraud aspects. Recent reported cases include: Magomedov v TPG Group [2025] EWHC 59 (Comm), Wang v Tianjin Lantian Gerui [2024 EWHC 2059 (Ch), Sian Participation v Domidias [2024] EWHC 458 (Comm), Gill v Thind [2023] EWCA Civ 1276, SFO v Harbour Fund II LLP [2022] EWHC 3053 and Faulkner v Vollin Holdings Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1371.

Career

Called 2006; Middle Temple. Called to the BVI Bar in 2013 and the Gibraltar Bar (on a case specified basis) in 2019. Publications of note: contributor to Oxford Journal of Trusts & Trustees; Tolley’s Company Law Service; and Butterworth’s Journal of International Bank and Financial Law.

Publications:

“Investigations by BIS”, Tolley’s Company Law Service

“It’s a real privilege: common interests in trust disputes”. Trusts and Trustees, T. & T. 2013, 19(1), 68-78.

“A Tale of Two Insolvencies”, Butterworth’s Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, (2012) 6 JIBFL 348.

Featured in The Lawyer, “Judgment Call”, 21 May 2012.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association and COMBAR. Called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands (2013) Called (on a case specific basis) to the Bar of Gibraltar (2019).

Education

Wadham College, Oxford (MA, BCL), Scholar.

Personal

“Investigations by BIS”, Tolley’s Company Law Service “It’s a real privilege: common interests in trust disputes”. Trusts and Trustees, T. & T. 2013, 19(1), 68-78. “A Tale of Two Insolvencies”, Butterworth’s Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, (2012) 6 JIBFL 348. Featured in The Lawyer, “Judgment Call”, 21 May 2012.

Leisure

Classical music, classic cars and wine

Mentions

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