Dan is a trust litigator with a broad chancery practice.
He has extensive experience of pensions, private trusts and professional liability disputes. Dan acts for multinationals, pension advisers, trustees and individuals.
Accolades
Dan is ranked as an Up and Coming lawyer in Chambers, where clients describe him as a lawyer who is "creative in coming up with arguments and really turns over every stone", "measured and responsive" and "really into the detail of the case law and is really good at summarising technical law into palatable chunks".
Dan is also ranked as a Leading Associate in Legal 500, where clients describe him as "excellent – bright, responsive and very easy to work with" and "an outstanding lawyer" who is "rock solid on the law, thinks of all the angles, and always considers the best options for his clients" and is "all over the detail, but takes a pragmatic, client-friendly approach to the work product".
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- the successful representative beneficiary, at both first instance and appeal, in a case determining whether RPI remained the appropriate index by which pensions would be uprated.
- a sponsoring employer in an application seeking to rectify the scheme rules to reflect the basis on which a category of members were to accrue benefits.
- providers of administration, consultancy and actuarial services in a wide range of professional negligence claims.
- HNWIs (High Net Worth Individuals) seeking to unwind a complex pension liberation scheme.
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