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Called: 1982

 

 

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Dan Prentice is Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law of the University of Oxford. He was member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1973 until his retirement in 2008. He held the Allen & Overy Professorship of Company Law from 1993 until his retirement. He still teaches at Oxford and is a Visiting Professor of Corporate Finance at University College London. He is member of both the Law Society's Committee on Company Law the Law Society's Committee on Insolvency Law.

What the Journals say

Ranked in: Chambers and Partners Company Ranked in: The Legal 500 Company

• Dan Prentice’s knowledge of the law is extensive. He was formerly the Allen and Overy Professor of corporate law and member of the Oxford Law Facaulty and is a practitioner of some renown who mainly acts in an advisory role. (Chambers and Partners)
• ...a highly visible presence in this field. (Company Law, Chambers and Partners)

Description of Practice

Dan Prentice is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, where he teaches Company Law, Corporate Insolvency and Corporate Finance.

His practice at Erskine Chambers is mainly advisory with some Insolvency Litigation.

He has advised the Automobile Association on its governance structure. Other advices include:

• issues arising on investment advertisements;
• the POS Regs;
• preference shareholder rights;
• the impact of section 311 of the Companies Act on various types of remuneration packages and employee incentive share schemes.

He regularly acts as an Expert Witness in proceedings in Europe, United States and Caribbean.

He is an experienced Arbitrator and is happy to act as part of a panel or as an individual.

Publications

• Joint General Editor of Buckley on the Companies Acts
• Assistant Editor of The Law Quarterly Review
• Editor, Chitty on Contracts (28th ed.)

Case List:

• Soden v. British & Commonwealth Holdings Plc
  Ref: [1997] 2 BCLC 501
  (with Robin Potts QC and David Chivers) - The case raised the question as to when a shareholder-creditor of a company is deferred in the liquidation of that company.