Daniel Burkitt

Daniel is counsel in Ogier's Dispute Resolution Team. Daniel is an experienced advocate, with expertise in asset preservation (freezing and charging orders), company and personal insolvency matters, banking, arbitrations and enforcement. He has also acted for several high-net-worth individuals.

Background and experience

Before joining Ogier, Daniel practised as a barrister for over 12 years at Three Stone, the Chambers of John McDonnell KC. He has acted in a wide variety of commercial disputes in the High Court and Court of Appeal, specialising in contractual interpretation. Daniel remains a door-tenant at Three Stone.

Since joining Ogier, Daniel has acted for the joint liquidators of Three Arrows Capital Ltd, a cryptocurrency hedge fund previously valued at over $3 bn and advised on other company and insolvency matters in the BVI.

Daniel was the Cairncross Award holder and Winter Williams law scholar at St Peter's College, University of Oxford and was awarded the prestigious Beddingfield scholarship by Gray's Inn. He has taught part-time at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

Publications:

Trade Mark Licensing (co-author, Thompson Reuters, 2019)

'The History and Cultural Specificity of the Western Model of Copyright' Intellectual Property Quarterly 2 [2001] 146-186

'Passing Off and Disloyal Competition' Yearbook of Copyright and Media Law 2001/2, Oxford University Press

'The Question is not Whether the Cat is Black or White but Whether or Not it Catches the Mice - Some Agnostic Observations on the Grand Theories of Legal Transplantation' School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Working Paper, 2001

'Address for Service Requirements and Restrictions on the Provision of Services by Patent Agents in the EU' Intellectual Property Institute, 2007

Admitted in:
2023 - British Virgin Islands
2008 - England and Wales