Louis Doyle KC

Practice Areas

Chancery and commercial litigation with a particular reputation and extensive experience in insolvency and insolvency-related work, the latter commonly involving commercial claims litigated under the procedural umbrella of a formal insolvency. Works on both the corporate and personal sides for insolvency office-holders (including offshore since taken silk), creditors (private and institutional), shareholders and other stakeholders. Appeared in about forty reported insolvency cases. Practice also encompasses company litigation (especially shareholder and boardroom disputes, trustee/directors’ duties, company capital, share and debt disputes) credit and security, financial litigation (especially commercial contracts, guarantees and financial instruments) and interim remedies, including injunctions and summary judgment. Claims commonly involve breach of duty, accessory liability (dishonest assistance and knowing receipt), conspiracy, fraud. Practice also extends to non-contentious drafting and advisory work, including assisting with structuring of high-value transactions and legal risk assessment on proposed fundraising and related transactions.

Career

Admitted a solicitor 1994. Called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) 1996. Attorney General Panel 2001-2007. Established Kings Chambers Wellbeing 2017. Silk 2020. Called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands 2021. Also associate tenant and instructed via 9, Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn.

Publications

Since first publication in 2005, co-author of what is now Doyle, Keay & Curl’s Annotated Insolvency Legislation (11th edn, 2023, LexisNexis) (with Professor Andrew Keay and Joseph Curl KC). Commentary approved of in a number of High Court cases.

Since 2010 contributing editor to leading looseleaf, Gore-Browne on Companies (LexisNexis).

General editor of bi-monthly journal, Kings Insolvency. Previously editorial board member of The Insolvency Lawyer, Insolvency Intelligence and The Company Lawyer.

Lectured widely to professional audiences on areas of interest and has undertaken pro bono work throughout career at the Bar.

Personal

Married, six children. Interests include fitness, music, literature, The Cormac McCarthy Society and Liverpool Football Club.