Daniel Judd

Called to the Bar 2018

Daniel joined South Square as a tenant in October 2019.

 

Daniel’s practice covers all of South Square’s area of expertise, including restructuring and corporate insolvency, commercial litigation and arbitration, banking and finance, bankruptcy and personal insolvency, civil fraud and asset recovery, offshore and fund litigation, company law, and trusts.

Daniel has a specialist restructuring practice, including restructuring plans under Part 26A, schemes of arrangement under Part 26, and CVAs.  He is familiar with contested restructurings and with advising on the effect of restructurings.  His restructuring instructions have included Travelodge, National Car Parks, New Look, Wilko, and Liberty Steel. Daniel contributes to specialist texts on restructuring and company law, such as Company Voluntary Arrangements (2022 OUP) and Company Directors (2024 OUP). Daniel was the youngest barrister ranked by INSOL in its “40 Under 40”.

Daniel is an insolvency specialist and is regularly instructed in connection with liquidations, administrations, cross-border insolvency issues, special administrations, and stakeholder applications.  Daniel recently obtained (as sole counsel) ex parte interim worldwide relief under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 which included freezing over £2 million in assets in the United Kingdom in Re Lars Skanvig Bramhelft [2025] EWHC 43 (Ch), and was instructed to urgently place IBP Markets Limited into special administration (led by Adam Al-Attar KC).

Daniel has extensive experience of high-profile commercial trials and litigation.  He acted for the successful claimants in London Capital & Finance Plc v Thomson & Ors [2024] EWHC 2894 (Ch) in establishing the largest Ponzi scheme in British history, following a 20-week trial (led by Stephen Robins KC) in a case ranked as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2024.  Daniel’s other instructions have included claims of $800 million arising out of the enforcement of security against companies in the GFG Alliance (led by Alain Choo-Choy KC) and acting for the successful defendants in dismissing allegations of negligence in a 3-week trial arising out of the sale of the Force India Formula One Team ([2020] EWHC 3442 (Ch), led by Jonathan Crow KC).

Daniel also has extensive experience of asset freezing orders and interim relief, including receivership orders, worldwide freezing orders, and proprietary freezing orders.  He has acted in numerous applications concerning issues of legal and living expenses arising out of the collapse of London Capital & Finance (e.g. [2023] EWHC 2353 (Ch), [2023] EWHC 2419 (Ch), [2024] EWHC 1684 (Ch)).

Prior to starting practice, Daniel was a Judicial Assistant in the High Court, based in the Chancery Division, from October 2019 until January 2020.

Daniel obtained a First Class degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University (ranked joint 3rd in year) and won numerous prizes. He completed an LL.M. at McGill University as a Canada Memorial Foundation scholar. Daniel is fluent in Italian and French.

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