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Daniel Downes

Associate Solicitor

Daniel’s practice encompasses a wide variety of property and commercial litigation matters. He has considerable experience, qualifying as a solicitor in 2005. Daniel has particular expertise in disputes arising out of leasehold interests, such as rent and service charge recovery and leasehold and collective enfranchisement. Daniel receives regular instructions from commercial and residential landlords and tenants and has acted in many possession claims during his career.

Daniel is a Property Litigation Association (PLA) member and a member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP).

BSc Combined (Hons) (1994)
Post Graduate Diploma in Law at Nottingham Law School (1998)
Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (2000)
Solicitor of England & Wales (Admitted 2005)

Expertise

Commercial litigation

Commercial litigation includes various high court litigation, including directorship and joint venture disputes, resulting in various remedies. He is alive to the commercial aspects of any given dispute. He is keen to explore all options open to a client, such as alternative dispute resolution, to deliver optimum value to the client.

Employment disputes

Contentious employment work includes advising on matters such as unfair dismissal, sexual discrimination and harassment, redundancy and he has successfully conducted claims brought by claimants before the employment tribunal.

Insolvency

Insolvency work includes both personal and corporate, acting for creditors, debtors and Trustees. Daniel has also acted on commercial litigation, which has resulted in remedies including search and seizure orders, doorstep imagining orders and worldwide freezing orders.

Leasehold enfranchisement

Daniel’s experience covers all facets of litigation regarding the various aspects of leasehold and collective enfranchisement in both the First Tier Tribunal and the County Courts.

Property

Property litigation work includes leasehold disputes, leasehold renewal, commercial and residential possession claims, trespass claims, service charge disputes, tenant default, specific performance claims, and debt recovery and insolvency proceedings. Daniel receives frequent instructions from one of London’s biggest property developers, whose current sales exceed £2 billion, in respect of its on-going property litigation concerns.

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