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Daisy specialises in all areas of contentious insolvency, company law, property and wills and trusts. She also appears regularly in directors’ disqualification matters and is on the Attorney General’s Regional Panel B.
Daisy has been recommended as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners since 2010. She is a trained mediator.
Bright and quick to identify the key issues in a case
She can truly battle her cases
Daisy is without exception the brightest junior counsel I have worked with in my career to date. She is incredibly versatile, an accomplished advocate and demonstrates a rare level of commitment to the matters she works on. Her tenacity is palpable to clients.
Very quick to grasp the issues, a fine grasp of detail, and is brilliant with people from all walks of life
She is very good and proactive, always going the extra mile. Her legal analysis is spot-on. She is top-notch and creative... She is a specialist with practical knowledge, a wealth of experience and an ability to translate complicated legal principles into language that the lay client can understand.
She is very quick in terms of providing relevant facts and strategic advice. She is very user-friendly and a go-to for the interesting matters.
Focuses significantly on insolvency as part of her broader chancery practice, which extends to commercial litigation and advisory work. She is an experienced junior who has appeared in court at all levels, including the Court of Appeal.
She's very approachable, easy to work with and is very commercial in her approach.
She is admired by peers and solicitors alike.
Daisy Brown is admired for her considerable expertise in both corporate and personal insolvency matters.
Up and Coming: Daisy Brown continues to impress market commentators with her "extraordinary degree of knowledge and her fantastic success rate."
One solicitor said of her: "She just never seems to lose cases!"
Daisy Brown is one of the more junior tenants at Guildhall Chambers.
She has impressed a number of sources with her "extensive degree of insolvency law knowledge" and is seen as being "extremely bright, direct, accurate and proactive."
Insolvency & Restructuring
Daisy’s practice includes all aspects of company and individual insolvency. Her experience ranges from applications to set aside statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions, administration applications, clawback proceedings (misfeasance, TUV, preferences, s.423 IA 1986), unlawful dividends and distributions, CVA/IVA voting appeals and partnership liquidations. She has particular experience in personal insolvencies involving issues concerning ancillary relief.
Company
Daisy is regularly instructed in cases concerning director’s duties, shareholder disputes, unfair prejudice petitions and just and equitable winding up petitions.
Company Directors Disqualification
Daisy regularly appears for the Secretary of State under her appointment as Junior Counsel to the Crown Regional B Panel, advising on and presenting disqualification cases in court. She also acts for defendant directors.
Property
Daisy’s property practice includes regular instructions in the High Court, County Court and First Tier Tribunal in relation to disputes about beneficial interests, proprietary estoppel, landlord and tenant, boundary disputes, easements and rights of way. She has considerable experience in agricultural matters including cases concerning equine law.
Mediation and ADR
Daisy is a trained mediator and accepts instructions to mediate in all matters within her practice areas.
Brake v Lowes; Brake v Swift [2020]
EWCA Civ 1491
Whether discharged bankrupts have standing to challenge transactions entered into by their trustee in bankruptcy on grounds that they were unlawful and without authority and whether bidders in a bidding competition conducted by liquidators as officers of the court have standing to challenge the resulting sale on grounds that the bidding was rigged and the process was unfair
O’Hara v Markham [2019]
EWCA Civ 397
Successfully appeared for the respondent to an appeal in respect of a variation to a freezing order
O’Hara v Markham [2018]
11 WLUK 176
Successfully appeared for the respondent to an application for an account which involved allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust and conversion. Application was struck out as an abuse of process.
EDF v Re-Energised [2018]
BPIR 855
Acted for the successful respondent to an appeal against a winding up order.
Jackson v Davis [2017]
1 WLR 4005 (Ch D)
Acted for the trustee in bankruptcy in an application for possession and sale involving issues surrounding the equity of exoneration and beneficial interests.
Day v Shaw & Anor [2014]
EWHC 36 (Ch)
Acted for the successful respondent to an appeal concerning whether a wife was entitled to an equity of exoneration as between herself and her husband in her capacity as surety for his personal guarantee in circumstances where she also stood as co-surety with her husband for his company’s debt.
Lewis (Trustee in Bankruptcy of Kennedy) v Kennedy [2010]
BPIR 886
Acted for the Trustee in Bankruptcy in a case in which the court had to consider whether statutory interest was payable.
James Robert Tucker & Jeremy Spratt (Joint Supervisors of Energy Holdings No.3 (In Liquidation)) v Goldfields Mining LLC [2009]
1 BCLC 567 [2009] BPIR 704 [2010] BCC 544
Acting for the successful respondent to an appeal concerning the constructing of the terms of a creditors’ voluntary arrangement so as to enable the supervisors to admit late claims by creditors who had not received notice of the meeting.
Karsten v Markham [2010]
1 FCR 523
Acting for the successful claimant in a trial involving issues of undue influence, non est factum, misrepresentation and fraud.
Baker v Rowe (2010) 2 Costs LR 175 [2010]
1 FLR 761 [2010] FCR 413 [2010] Fam Law 17
Successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal in a case concerning the interaction between TLATA and ancillary relief proceedings.
Chancery Bar Association
Trained Mediator - The Society of Mediators
Barristers regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
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