Dan is a Partner in our Financial Services Dispute and Investigations group, and Pensions Disputes team. Dan co-leads our UK Cryptoassets Disputes practice.
Dan specialises in complex banking litigation; crypto disputes; professional negligence/mis-selling claims (including pensions investments); tech and outsourcing disputes; and has a particular focus and experience in handling financial mis-selling and consumer credit/finance claims.
Dan also regularly advises financial institution clients in respect of regulatory and compliance issues, including regulatory investigations, past business reviews and consumer redress schemes; as well as complaints handling strategies for dealing with the FOS and the FCA.
Dan has over the past 5 years built significant experience in acting for crypto provider/exchange clients in several high value, cross-jurisdictional crypto disputes, including acting in claims individually valued at in excess of $1bn, and other complex disputes valued at over $100m.
Dan is heavily involved in leading the firm's contentious offering in the personal pensions/SIPP sector with a particular focus on defending widespread mis-selling/professional negligence claims against SIPP and SSAS providers. Dan led a portfolio of complaints under DISP, FOS complaints and legal claims for a SIPP provider with an exposure in excess of £50 million.
Dan was the lead fee earner in Russell Adams -v- Options UK Personal Pensions LLP (acting for Options), in which the Court of Appeal provided the leading judgment on the extent of duties owed by an execution only SIPP administrator, the application of COBS to SIPP administrators, and the application of s.27 FSMA which was previously untested by the courts.
Dan has significant experience in dealing with consumer credit/finance claims, leading several portfolios of claims for leading national lenders. Dan has particular expertise in s.75 claims, in respect of which he trains a number of KAM clients on an annual basis.
Recent client experience includes:
- advising a major global bank in respect of a c.£150m raising various allegations, including a derivative claim to be brought on behalf of a PLC company and allegations under the unfair relationship provisions of the CCA 1974
- advising a crypto-provider regarding a c.$45m claim brought by three individuals. The claim raises well over a dozen allegations ranging from breach of contract, through to intimidation claims, breaches of data protection legislation, and regulatory issues, amongst many others. The claim concerns multiple jurisdictions.
Daniel’s article on complaints handling was published as a Practice Note on PLC.