Dan Butler
Call: 2021 Solicitor: 2011
Dan is developing a busy company and insolvency law practice and frequently acts for shareholders, directors, insolvency officeholders and companies. He regularly appears unled in the Insolvency and Companies Court on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters, including winding-up and bankruptcy petitions and associated applications.
Dan’s recent led work has included:
-Appearing for the successful creditor in Staveley v Restis [2024] EWHC 670 (Ch) on an application to set aside a statutory demand and related winding-up proceedings.
-Shareholder disputes submitted to confidential arbitration under both the LCIA and UNCITRAL rules.
-An 18-day High Court trial of claims for alleged breaches of directors’ duties, negligence, dishonest assistance, conspiracy and a transaction defrauding creditors arising out of the restructuring of a private hospital group.
-Advising the joint provisional liquidators of a substantial Bermudian financial services group.
Prior to being called to the bar, Dan trained as a solicitor with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In his 10 years in private practice Dan worked in both London and Hong Kong and developed substantial experience in restructuring and insolvency, advising on a wide variety of both contentious and non-contentious matters, often with a cross-border element. He has particular expertise in schemes of arrangement and Part VII transfers
