Dan Morrison

Dan is a Partner and Head of the Finance and Banking Group. He is also a key member of the Fraud team. Working on heavyweight commercial litigation and arbitration, Dan's focus is corporate fraud and financial disputes: breaches of fiduciary duty, bribery and corruption, conflicts of interest, derivative actions, and shareholder disputes.

High profile multi-jurisdictional claims under his direction have recovered hundreds of millions of pounds in damages for his clients. They include high profile hedge funds and other financial institutions. They are testimony to Dan's aggressive, ROI approach.

He is also recognised as an expert on the law relating to covert investigations, and has a number of the world's most renowned investigative agencies as clients.

Furthermore Dan is breaking new ground with strategies for the recovery of stolen trade secrets, proprietary and confidential information and action against the perpetrators. Clients here include well known recruitment, telecoms and financial organisations for whom this is an issue.

Key Experience

Most of Dan’s cases are confidential by their very nature but a summary of the recent cases that Dan has led include:

Acting for hedge funds in high profile disputes concerning misuse of proprietary information and damages arising out of equity investments.

A multi-million pound international arbitration concerning claims for breach of duty brought against management team of start up telecoms business.

International asset recovery claims by investment banks and other institutions.

Representing FTSE100 recruitment agencies on a number of information theft and covenant-enforcement cases.

Various claims concerning poaching of key employees and solicitation of clients in recruitment, banking, financial and other sectors; acting for the employees themselves; for the previous employer and prospective employer.

Obtaining, on a regular and frequent basis, without notice Search, Evidence Preservation and Asset Freezing Orders against Defendants, both in the UK and overseas.

Defending claims brought against corporates for fraud and for inducing breach of contract by third parties.

Obtaining injunctions against newspapers and other publications, both traditional and online, preventing publication of unlawful material.

Bringing insurance claims against underwriters for recovery of substantial sums arising out of disputed claims under policies.

Advising internationally-renowned investigation agencies on covert investigation techniques and admissibility of evidence issues.

Conducting various internal enquiries concerning allegations of misconduct or malpractice.

Career History

Articles and Publications

Dan has written numerous articles, both in national and trade press. He is a regular contributor to the BBC in relation to fraud-related topics.