Daniel is developing a broad practice across Chambers’ core areas of practice, in particular shipping, commodities, fraud, and international commercial arbitration and litigation. He is a dual-qualified English barrister and New York attorney.
Daniel holds degrees from Durham University (law), the University of Cambridge (LLM), and Harvard Law School (LLM).
Prior to joining Chambers, Daniel was a research assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales, where he worked on the Commission’s review of the Arbitration Act 1996 (the genesis of the Arbitration Act 2025). Daniel also spent a year working as a paralegal at law firm Pogust Goodhead and interned in WilmerHale’s International Arbitration Practice Group.
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Arbitration
- CAFI v GTCS Trading DMCC [2025] EWHC 1350 (Comm): assisted (as a pupil) Angharad Parry KC in a case concerning a s 67, 68 and 69 Arbitration Act challenge to a GAFTA Board of Appeal arbitral award.
- Assisted (as a pupil) with drafting written submissions in a CAS arbitration relating to selection issues and the Olympic Charter.
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton for dismissal without a hearing of a s 67 Arbitration Act challenge, in a dispute about the forfeiture of a deposit under a Norwegian Saleform.
Civil fraud
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings in a business compromise fraud case in the Commercial Court.
Commodities & international trade
- Assisted (as a pupil) with drafting a skeleton in an LCIA arbitration relating to the proper application of UK, Swiss, and EU sanctions in the context of an agreement for the sale and purchase of Russian coal.
Jurisdiction, conflicts & enforcement
- Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Limited v ILLC Chlodwig Enterprises & others [2025] EWCA Civ 369: assisted (as a pupil) Paul Lowenstein KC and Edward Gilmore in a case concerning the application of an anti-suit injunction to claims against non-parties to underlying arbitration agreements.
Shipping
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton in an LMAA arbitration concerning salvage remuneration, wreck removal, and the Limitation Convention.
- Drafted (as a pupil) a skeleton in an LMAA arbitration concerning claims under a charterparty for unpaid hire, vessel damage, and a shortfall of bunkers on redelivery.
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings in an LMAA arbitration claim for general average contributions following a ship grounding in the Suez Canal.
- Drafted (as a pupil) pleadings in an LMAA arbitration concerning a dispute under a shipbuilding contract for the construction of a luxury yacht.
- Assisted (as a pupil) with preparing advice on the merits of a claim for damages for loss of cargo arising out of a fire onboard a container ship.
