Dan has acted in a number of complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional commercial and civil fraud disputes in a wide range of sectors, and has considerable expertise in asset recovery and enforcement procedures, as well as worldwide freezing orders. Dan also has significant experience in litigation support and corporate investigations, and applies his investigative skills to his legal practice.
Background
Dan read law at University College London before joining a Mayfair-based business intelligence and corporate investigations boutique. In June 2015, Dan co-founded Enyo Law’s business intelligence unit and for over five years Dan was the firm’s sole in-house analyst, providing investigative litigation support in most of the firm’s big-ticket cases, including conducting complex multi-jurisdictional asset traces and fraud investigations, as well as retrieving and deploying evidence in court. Dan completed his training contract with Enyo Law and qualified in September 2022.
- Acting for Gennadiy Bogolyubov in his defence of a series of claims brought by Ukraine’s largest commercial bank, PrivatBank, following its nationalisation in December 2016.
- Acting for a high-net-worth individual defending High Court claims alleging unlawful means conspiracy and breach of undertakings to the Competition Commission (losses claimed of c. £120 million), as well as related proceedings over the exercise of an option agreement.
- Acting for a Chinese asset manager against a major UK asset manager in a dispute over a substantial Canary Wharf office development, successfully obtaining summary judgment of c. £10 million.
- Acting for Gennadiy Bogolyubov in his successful defence of a $300 million fraud claim brought by PJSC Tatneft.
- Acting for a corporate advisory firm in a claim against a former client in a dispute over advisory fees.
- Acting in an HKIAC arbitration for an experienced cryptocurrency investor in relation to a claim against a cryptocurrency exchange for unpaid tokens in breach of their terms and conditions regarding investment products.
- Assisting a large cryptocurrency exchange platform in its recovery of Bitcoin worth several millions of pounds following a fraud on the platform.
- Acting for a talent agency in relation to a claim against an actor for unpaid agency commissions. The matter settled.
