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Professional Biography

Dakis Hagen KC specialises in Chancery litigation, both commercial and traditional. His cases usually involve international structures, most often trusts and estates. Dakis is ranked in Chambers & Partners for Chancery: Commercial and Chancery: Traditional (Band 1) as well as for Trusts (Band 1), Offshore (Band 1) and Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts (Star Individual). Chambers HNW has placed him in Band 1 for Traditional Chancery. The Legal 500 ranks him for Private Client, Civil Fraud and Offshore (Band 1). He has appeared in courts in England, Gibraltar, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and BVI and is regularly instructed both by London solicitors and directly by overseas lawyers including from Continental Europe, the Channel Islands, the Caribbean, Bermuda, Singapore, Hong Kong and North America. Since 2018 he has been co-chairman of Trusts & Estates Litigation Forum, currently held in Marrakesh.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Sessions Arts Club

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

At the Bar, never underestimate your opponent and always treat him or her with respect

What was your first job?

Doing (low level) data analysis as an intern in a university

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More in person meetings and hearings