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
We had a clear vision of what we required throughout, and Dan executed this exactly as we required. We have dealt with other firms in recent times for other matters, and there was no comparison to the care and attention to detail we received from Dan and his team.
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
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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
