Daisy Boulter
Senior Counsel
Cayman Islands
Daisy is a seasoned litigator specialising in complex cross-border commercial litigation, trust disputes, insolvency and asset recovery.
Daisy is part of our Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group. She is a highly experienced litigator with approximately 15 years' experience acting in complex cross-border commercial litigation, trust disputes, insolvency and asset recovery matters.
Daisy's key areas of experience include:
- High-value cross-border commercial and contractual disputes
- Fraud, tracing and multi-jurisdictional asset recovery
- Urgent interim relief, including worldwide freezing injunctions and other protective measures
- Contentious trusts and estates matters, acting for trustees, enforcers, protectors and beneficiaries
- Breach of trust claims, removal and replacement of trustees and protectors, blessing applications and Beddoe relief
- Insolvency proceedings, including liquidations and sanction applications, statutory undervalue and preference claims and cross-border insolvency disputes
Daisy joined the firm in 2019, after spending the first 8 years of her career as a commercial chancery barrister in Lincoln's Inn, London. She regularly appeared in the High Court as a sole advocate on a wide range of commercial, insolvency and trust litigation matters and as part of a larger team alongside King's Counsel.
Daisy also spent time at a leading law firm in the Channel Islands, working for four months in the Litigation and Insolvency department in Guernsey and ten months in the Private Client and Trusts department in Jersey.
Daisy Boulter is a truly terrific lawyer. Total recall on minute detail spanning thousands of documents and hundreds of hours of evidence. Quite extraordinary."
Experience and recent work
Daisy was called to the English Bar in 2010 and practised as a Commercial Chancery Barrister at 3 Stone Buildings in London from 2012 to March 2019. She developed a broad commercial chancery practice at the Bar and, in particular, gained experience in the fields of contentious trusts and probate, insolvency, commercial and business disputes and civil fraud. She has experience dealing with various urgent applications for interim relief, including applications for worldwide freezing orders. In addition to appearing in the County Court and the High Court as a sole advocate, Daisy was often instructed as part of a team in large scale and high value matters.
Insolvency Litigation: Her insolvency cases at the London Bar involved all aspects of bankruptcy, liquidation, administration and voluntary arrangements; applications in insolvency proceedings (e.g. rescission, annulment, setting aside statutory demands, restraint of advertisement and validation orders); and transactions at undervalue and preferences.
Commercial Litigation: Daisy was instructed on a variety of business, commercial and contractual disputes, including disputes over loans, share purchase agreements and facility agreements; agency and consultancy arrangements; guarantees and indemnities. Daisy was instructed with leading counsel in Kotak v Kotak [2018] EWHC 318 (Ch) in a complex partnership dispute in the High Court involving issues of forgery and breach of duty spanning over a period of around 10 years.
Trusts and Estates Litigation: At the London Bar, Daisy was regularly instructed on a wide range of contentious trusts and probate matters, including claims arising out of lack of testamentary capacity and knowledge and approval; Inheritance Act claims; construction of wills; claims for breach of trust and recovery of trust assets; removal of trustees/personal representatives; applications for Beddoe relief and directions; and professional negligence claims by disappointed beneficiaries under the White v Jones principle.
Daisy also spent time four months in the Litigation and Insolvency department of a leading law firm in Guernsey and spent ten months in the Private Client and Trusts department in a leading law firm in Jersey.
Insolvency Litigation: Her insolvency cases at the London Bar involved all aspects of bankruptcy, liquidation, administration and voluntary arrangements; applications in insolvency proceedings (e.g. rescission, annulment, setting aside statutory demands, restraint of advertisement and validation orders); and transactions at undervalue and preferences.
Commercial Litigation: Daisy was instructed on a variety of business, commercial and contractual disputes, including disputes over loans, share purchase agreements and facility agreements; agency and consultancy arrangements; guarantees and indemnities. Daisy was instructed with leading counsel in Kotak v Kotak [2018] EWHC 318 (Ch) in a complex partnership dispute in the High Court involving issues of forgery and breach of duty spanning over a period of around 10 years.
Trusts and Estates Litigation: At the London Bar, Daisy was regularly instructed on a wide range of contentious trusts and probate matters, including claims arising out of lack of testamentary capacity and knowledge and approval; Inheritance Act claims; construction of wills; claims for breach of trust and recovery of trust assets; removal of trustees/personal representatives; applications for Beddoe relief and directions; and professional negligence claims by disappointed beneficiaries under the White v Jones principle.
Daisy also spent time four months in the Litigation and Insolvency department of a leading law firm in Guernsey and spent ten months in the Private Client and Trusts department in a leading law firm in Jersey.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- England and Wales (now non-practising) (2010)
- Cayman Islands (2019)
Education:
- LLB (First Class Hons), University of Kent, England, UK
- Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School, London, England, UK
- INSOL Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency Law
- International Ladies in Trusts Association (ILITA), Cayman Islands
- Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)
- Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA)
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA)
- Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners' Association (CILPA)
- Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
- Chancery Bar Association, London (Overseas Member)
Rankings & Recognition:
- Legal 500 (2025) – ranked as a Leading Associate
- Legal 500 (2025): "Daisy Boulter is a truly terrific lawyer. Total recall on minute detail spanning thousands of documents and hundreds of hours of evidence. Quite extraordinary".
- Legal 500 (2024) - Described as a cross-border trust litigation expert who was recommended as a key lawyer in trusts / private client in the Cayman Islands
- Legal 500 (2024) - "Shelley White and Daisy Boulter are not only very experienced attorneys but also highly strategic. Easy to work together with and very fast thinking".
Other Industry Engagements:
- 2019 – present: Manages the International Ladies in Trusts Association (ILITA), together with Shelley White and Lucy Diggle. ILITA provides local networking opportunities to women in the trusts industry.
- STEP Cayman Next-Gen Seminar Series (2025): Speaker on a panel titled: "Trustees in Litigation – Practical Guidance for Contentious Situations".
- IWIRC Technical Panel (2025): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "Legal Privilege and the Jardine Strategic Privy Council Decision".
- STEP Cayman Conference (2024): Speaker on a contentious trusts panel titled: "Resolving issues caused by problematic trusts and structural vulnerabilities with the assistance of the court”.
- International Walkers Webinar (2024): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "Should I stay or Should I go – Beneficiary applications for Trustee removal, how to respond and practical tips".
- IWIRC Technical Panel (2023): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "Directors' duties, including the duties of directors to consider the interests of a company's creditors in the context of insolvency and the Duomatic principle."
- International Walkers Webinar (2023): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "Construction and Variation of Trusts and Will Trusts".
- International Walkers Webinar (2020): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "Retrospective and Prospective Beddoe and Blessing Relief in the Cayman Islands".
- STEP Cayman Webinar (2020): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "When families go to war: A practical guide for trustees seeking the protection of the Grand Court".
- International Walkers Webinar (2020): Speaker on a technical panel titled: "Trusts: Brief round-up of the latest trusts case and developments".
Other Academic Honours:
- Sir Thomas More Bursary and the Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship (the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn)
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