Practice Overview
Lisa Linklater K.C. is a leading silk with an established reputation nationally for her expertise, advocacy, strategic excellence and advice in the following areas in which she has specialised for 30 years:
- Company, LLP and Partnership disputes, particularly shareholder disputes,
- Insolvency and Restructuring,
- Commercial Dispute Resolution,
- Commercial Fraud and
- Property and Trusts
For further detail as to Lisa’s expertise and experience in these practice areas please refer to each of Lisa’s bespoke practice area CVs (see links above).
Lisa is Vice-chair of the Northern Business and Property Bar Association.
Recommendations
Lisa has been recommended as a Band 1 silk for two consecutive years by both Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025 and Legal 500 UK Bar 2025 in three practice areas – Commercial Dispute Resolution, Chancery and Insolvency and Restructuring. Testimonials are in the recommendations section opposite. They recognise Lisa’s many skills and personal qualities that have cemented her reputation in heavyweight and high profile cases in silk. The current legal directories note: “Lisa is very capable with complex commercial litigation and is able to cut through complicated matters quickly. She is a pleasure to work with and is also great with clients”, “Lisa is technically excellent” and “a formidable opponent”.
Experience, Skills and Personal Qualities
Lisa is highly experienced in acting for a very wide range of clients in cases and disputes that are high-profile (including many attracting media attention), set a legal precedent (either for the client or generally), are of high financial value, intersect with criminal matters and/or are of reputational importance to the client. Lisa gained considerable experience of this type of work from a very early stage in her career, having been appointed to the prestigious Attorney General’s Regional Panel of Counsel (civil) for three consecutive terms (18 years) prior to taking silk.
Lisa is recognised by Legal 500 UK Bar 2025 as “pragmatic, intelligent, and always calm and considered,” as well as being “tenacious in battle”. She has a wealth of experience in advocacy in the Business and Property Courts of the High Court, the Court of Appeal and in Alternative Dispute Resolution (including arbitration and mediation).
She is highly adept in cases involving expert evidence, particularly of a financial nature.
Lisa brings 30 years of experience in advising and representing diverse clients including companies (plcs, SMEs and household names), banks and other lenders, high net worth individuals (often in their capacity as shareholders, directors, members of LLPs, partners or co-owners of commercial and residential property), insolvency practitioners (as office holders or LPA receivers), central government (Secretary of State for Business and Trade and HM Revenue and Customs), local government, sports clubs, solicitor firms and trustees of substantial trust funds. She is instructed on behalf of clients by and against regional, national and international law firms.
Lisa is valued for her excellent leadership skills, collaborating very effectively with a very wide range of clients and legal teams to advance clients’ objectives effectively: “she is always challenging us on aspects of the case we might not have thought of. She really raises the game of everyone working with her.” Lisa frequently works with lawyers who are specialist in other legal jurisdictions (recent examples include Jersey, Isle of Man, Scotland, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia) or other silks, junior Counsel or lawyers with complementary expertise (recent examples include criminal, tax on transactions and matrimonial). She also regularly leads junior Counsel (where appropriate to the case and client).
Further Expertise and Personal Qualities
Lisa is very widely published in her areas of specialism, as set out in the publications section. She is regularly invited to chair or speak on topical legal developments. In 2023 Lisa was chair of a prestigious panel of international experts at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime and in 2024 she chaired at the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Security Conference in Manchester.
