"Up there with the best."
Daniel Jowell QC is one of the Bar’s foremost silks for both commercial law and competition law.
He is listed across multiple categories of the legal directories, in which he has recently been described as "[a]n excellent barrister and courtroom advocate with great judgement and a very attractive advocacy style” (Legal 500, 2021), and as “a superb intellect, … user-friendly and responsive…Amazing in court, great in hearings and incredibly thorough” (Chambers & Partners, 2021). His practice spans all aspects of commercial law and competition law, including commercial judicial review.
He is particularly known for his experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes involving conflicts of law or foreign law and has extensive experience in the energy (oil, gas & electricity) sectors and in joint venture disputes. He is a veteran of a number of the heavy-weight commercial disputes in the High Court of recent years, and was part of the team that acted for for Mr Abramovich in his dispute with Mr Berezovsky. He has also appeared in a number of major international commercial arbitrations.
Daniel Jowell QC is one of the Bar’s foremost silks for both commercial law and competition law.
He is listed across multiple categories of the legal directories, in which he has recently been described as "[a]n excellent barrister and courtroom advocate with great judgement and a very attractive advocacy style” (Legal 500, 2021), and as “a superb intellect, … user-friendly and responsive…Amazing in court, great in hearings and incredibly thorough” (Chambers & Partners, 2021). His practice spans all aspects of commercial law and competition law, including commercial judicial review.
He is particularly known for his experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes involving conflicts of law or foreign law and has extensive experience in the energy (oil, gas & electricity) sectors and in joint venture disputes. He is a veteran of a number of the heavy-weight commercial disputes in the High Court of recent years, and was part of the team that acted for for Mr Abramovich in his dispute with Mr Berezovsky. He has also appeared in a number of major international commercial arbitrations.
In addition to his commercial practice, Daniel Jowell QC is known as “one of the best competition silks around” (Chambers and Partners 2016). He has been instructed on most of the major competition law damages actions of recent years and in a number of challenges to the decisions of regulators, including those of the OFT and the Competition Commission (now the CMA). He was winner of the Chambers and Partners award of Competition law “Silk of the Year” for 2015/2016.
Daniel practises in all aspects of Commercial law and has acted in a number of the major commercial cases of recent years. Notable reported cases include:
Daniel has an academic background in both EU law and economics. He has appeared in a number of the landmark competition law cases of recent years, with particular experience in numerous cartel damages actions. He has also acted in a number of claims relating to EU law including for the restitution of tax paid contrary to EU law. Reported cases include:
Daniel has appeared as counsel in a number of significant commercial arbitrations over many years, including those governed by L.C.I.A., I.C.C. and ad hoc rules. In 2017, he successfully secured an award for over $300m in the High Court: UMS Holding Ltd v Great Station Properties [2017] EWHC 2398 (Comm).
After obtaining a first class degree in PPE at New College, Oxford, a Frank Knox scholarship to Harvard University and an LLM at the College of Europe (Bruges), Daniel Jowell was called to the Bar in 1995. A tenant at One Essex Court from 1996, he joined Brick Court Chambers in 2005. He was appointed to silk in 2011.
He was called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands in 2005 and to the Bar of the Republic of Ireland in 2019.
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Competition Law
Energy
EU Law
Fraud
Tax
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