Home office: Bristol and London
Darren is an experienced litigator specialising in high value and complex disputes.
He has experience across a broad range of domestic and international matters, including in banking / financial services, fraud, insolvency, professional negligence and tax. He has particular experience of structuring and progressing group litigation and litigation funding.
Darren has acted for a variety of clients, including high net worth individuals, airlines, banks, financial authorities, hedge funds, insolvency practitioners, insurance companies, law firms, telecommunications companies and trustees.
Darren’s experience includes working internationally and in-house. During his time at Herbert Smith Freehills, Darren completed a one-year secondment to the firm’s Melbourne office and a nine-month secondment to one of the ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms.
How Darren can help you
Experience
- At his previous firm, Stewarts, Darren’s caseload included advising over 350 individuals, a number of whom are well-known personalities, in group litigation involving claims in fraudulent misrepresentation, conspiracy and negligence against various parties including a number of large banks. The claims arose from investments in various tax-efficient investment vehicles focused on films and video games. The case was listed in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2018 and 2022.
- Darren has also acted for the liquidators of two BVI companies in relation to €500 million claims against Deutsche Bank AG and others concerning complex financial derivatives linked to the Icelandic bank, Kaupthing hf.
Focus On
Focus on financial services litigation at Clarke Willmott
Clarke Willmott’s specialist financial services litigation team act for individuals and SMEs, across the country, on a range of disputes in the financial services sector.
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Financial services litigation
Court of Appeal clarifies when multiple claimants can bring claims in a single claim form
The case concerned allegations of negligence against a firm of solicitors, who it was argued had breached its duty properly to advise the claimants in relation to investing in property development projects.
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Industry news
Court of Appeal allows secret commissions claim to proceed as a representative action
The Court of Appeal in Commission Recovery Ltd v Marks & Clerk LLP & Another [2024] EWCA Civ 9 has upheld a High Court’s decision permitting a secret commission claim to proceed as a representative action under CPR 19.8 in an important decision for the “opt out” collective action regime in England and Wales.
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Financial services litigation
Service of a claim by email – time for a change in the rules?
In Chehaib v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Others [2024] EWHC 2 the claimant failed to have its claim survive against one of three defendants after attempting to serve that defendant by email without permission contrary to CPR Practice Direction 6A.
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