Profile
About Damian Falkowski, commercial and property
Damian Falkowski has nearly 30 years’ experience as a barrister specialising in commercial and property disputes. In recent years, he has been involved in numerous cases for tech and crypto companies. These have included shareholder and investor disputes and cases concerning alleged infringement of intellectual property rights in code.
He has acted for corporations large and small, partnerships and private individuals. His most recent work has involved jurisdictions right across the world including Singapore, Bahamas, Isle of Man and USA.
He is regularly instructed in world wide freezing orders. He recently acted for a US hedge fund in a $100 million tracing claim obtaining freezing injunctions and Norwich Pharmacal orders. He was also instructed in a US $500 million international fraud tracing claim.
While most of his work is solicitor instructed, he also accepts instructions directly from clients. He is able to take a case from initial enquiry, through to the conclusion, whether that is by negotiation, mediation, arbitration or court process.
Damian has been General Editor of Halsbury’s Laws Consumer Credit and Aktins Court Forms: Mortgages. He is a contributor to the leading textbook on the law of evidence: Phipson on Evidence: Estoppels. Other text books include A Practical Guide to The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954: Commercial Tenancies, the 3rd Edition of which will be published in the autumn.
He has been admitted to practise as a barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the British Virgin Islands. He has considerable experience of alternative dispute resolution including expert determination and mediation.
He is on the Isle of Man register of Legal Practitioners, Legal Practitioners Registration Act 1986.
He is registered with the Bar Council of England and Wales.
He is licensed for Direct Public access.
Professional
Barrister of Gray’s Inn
Bencher of Gray’s Inn
Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the British Virgin Islands.
Isle of Man register of Legal Practitioners, Legal Practitioners Registration Act 1986.
Registered with the Bar Council of England and Wales.
Licensed for Direct Public access.
Lecturing and training
Advocacy Trainer for Gray’s Inn since 2002.
Gray’s Inn Moots – Judging.
Inns of Court College of Advocacy: Lead Trainer. Training of advocates in Warsaw, Wroclaw and Malaga.
King’s College London Bar and Mooting Society Social Mobility Mentorship Scheme - Mentor.
University of Notre Dame (USA) in London, London Law Program, guest lecturer
Jagiellonian University (Krakow) Research Centre in London – guest lecturer
Tischner University, Krakow – guest lecturer
The Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, 2018 - guest speaker
British Law Centre, Warsaw University, November 2019
British Law Centre, Warsaw University, November 2023
Juris Angliae Scientia (JAS), British Law Centre (BLC), Cambridge University and Warsaw - member of the Legal Professions Liaison Group and Trustee. BLC teaches a postgraduate Diploma in English law at universities throughout eastern Europe. JAS is an educational charity formed and managed by academic staff of Cambridge University’s Faculty of Law.
Regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
Registered: Isle of Man Legal Practitioners Registration Act 1986.