Dan Geddes
Partner
Contact details
023 8085 7072
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Dan is a Senior member of Commercial Litigation team in Southampton dealing with a wide variety of disputes. He has specialist knowledge in company law, insolvency, insurance, debt recovery and contract law.
Main areas of practice
- Commercial litigation
- Commercial disputes
- Insolvency
Clients
Dan’s clients include:
- Many local businesses and private individuals on and around the South Coast
- Insolvency practitioners from firms including RSM, Mazars, Quantuma and CVR;
- Large international insurance companies and their policyholders;
- A variety of banks, invoice discounters and factors, debt purchasers and motor/equipment finance companies;
Expertise & Services
Dan Geddes is very understanding and his awareness to solutions impresses me.
Career
Dan graduated from University of Manchester in 1999 and qualified as a solicitor in 2003. Dan first joined Blake Morgan (then Blake Lapthorn) in 2007.
Contact details
023 8085 7072
Email Dan
Accreditations
Memberships
- Chartered Institute of Credit Management
- Insolvency Lawyers' Association
- R3 (Association of Insolvency Professionals)
Significant Experience
- Advising and representing an international insurance company in relation to a dispute with one of its policyholders worth approximately £500,000
- Pursuing a claim on behalf of an insolvency practitioner against a former director of a business who had unlawfully removed funds from the company
- Advising a former director and shareholder of a high profile local business in relation to an alleged breach of warranty dispute arising from a shareholder agreement
- Advising a technology business on the recovery of a substantial debt owed to it by a cash-strapped customer
- Representing the liquidators of various companies in relation to claims against former directors arising from alleged tax fraud and director misfeasance
Additional Expertise
- Shareholder disputes
- Warranty disputes
- Breach of contract disputes
- Debt recovery
- Advice on directors’ duties and director disqualification
