2 Temple Gardens

Insurance, Construction & Engineering, Product Liability & Property Damage, Professional Liability & Negligence, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, International Arbitration & Projects

Daniel Crowley is a formidable trial and appellate advocate, trusted with some of the most complex and high-stakes disputes. He has fought dozens of cases at trial and appeared in the Court of Appeal many times, frequently as sole counsel in technically demanding trials and appeals.

His practice spans insurance, construction and engineering, professional liability, product liability and property damage, commercial litigation, and international arbitration.

A Fellow of the CIArb and a Chartered Arbitrator, Daniel is regularly instructed as lead counsel in major cross-border arbitrations. Recent highlights include acting for a South American claimant in a high-value contractual/sale of goods dispute and representing an international energy contractor in ICC arbitrations involving delay, disruption and multi-million-euro claims from the conversion of a coal-fired power station to biomass in France. He also sits as arbitrator on party-appointed and institutional panels.

Recognised for incisive cross-examination and courtroom strategy, Daniel is trusted with technically complex and reputationally significant matters. He was named Commercial Disputes Barrister of the Year at the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2016 and 2017.

He is an editor of The Law of Property Damage.

Daniel has appeared in leading and reported cases including Vainker v Marbank and Others;2 Entertain v Sony; Actavo v Doosan Babcock; Rendlesham v Barr; Hufford v Samsung; Berent v Family Mosaic Housing; Bole v Huntsbuild Ltd; Force India Formula One Team v Futurecom.

COMBAR (Committee Member 2000–2007); CIArb (Fellow); LCLCBA; PNBA; TECBAR; Gray’s Inn Advocacy Trainer (graded “A”).