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Dan Prentice

Called: 1982

 

 

Profile

Dan Prentice continues his professorship in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, teaching Company Law, Corporate Insolvency and Corporate Finance and combines this with a mainly advisory practice at Erskine Chambers. He is a member of both the Law Society's Committee on Company Law and the Law Society's Committee on Insolvency Law.

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.