Daniel Hayward-Hughes

Junior Partner | Litigation

About

Daniel has a broad commercial litigation practice with specialisms in contractual, fund, partnership, and shareholder disputes, negligence claims, crypto disputes, and white-collar crime, as well as regulatory disputes and corporate insolvency.

  • Daniel’s practice focuses on complex multi-party international disputes often with a financial markets or regulatory element. He has extensive experience of injunctions and related relief, often involving multiple jurisdictions. He has litigated at all levels of the English courts and in the Privy Counsel.

    In addition to England and Wales, Daniel has been admitted in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda.

Practices

  • Arbitration and Mediation

  • Banking and Financial Services

  • Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring, and Reorganization

  • Commercial Litigation

  • International Disputes

  • Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

  • Litigation and Risk Management

  • Private Client Services

  • Securities and Derivative Litigation

  • Technology

  • White Collar Defense & Investigations

Admissions

  • England and Wales

  • Cayman Islands

  • Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI)

  • Bermuda

Education

  • University of Law, Higher Rights of Audience (civil)

  • BPP University of Law, GDL and LPC

  • Durham University, MA English Literature

  • Durham University, BA English Literature and Classics

Law Firm Experience

  • Walkers

  • Appleby

  • Signature Litigation

  • Herber Smith Freehills

Corporate Experience

  • Lloyds Banking Group, M&A

  • Deloitte, Private Equity

Publications

  • Co-author of Cayman, BVI and Bermuda chapters of Global Legal Post's Cryptoassets, Law Over Borders Comparative Guide 2024

  • Author of Litigation Against Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Navigating Frontier, ThoughtLeaders4, October 2024

  • Author of Crypto disputes: an offshore perspective in International Corporate Rescue, March 2023

Speaking Engagements

  • Panellist, "Crypto collapse and the Globix affair lessons to be learnt and recent trends" as part of Penningtons' series on crypto disputes, December 2023

  • Panellist, "Crypto – defining, regulating and litigating" at the Legal Business Financial Regulatory and Disputes Summit 2022