Daniel Tynan

Daniel has been practising at the New South Wales Bar since 2008. He is an experienced advocate with a broad ranging commercial practice and regularly appears in large, complex, high profile and high value litigation.

Daniel has particular expertise in competition law and consumer law in which he is regarded as one of Australia’s leading barristers. In this field he regularly advises and acts for private clients and the ACCC and has appeared in many of the significant cases in recent years.

Daniel is listed in Doyle’s Guide and Legal 500 as a Leading Barrister in Competition and Consumer Law.

He has represented multinational companies, financial institutions and individuals in proceedings brought by various international and domestic regulators involving allegations of cartel conduct, fraud, market manipulation, money laundering and other corporate crime and misconduct.

Daniel appears principally in trial and appellate matters in the Federal Court and State Supreme Courts.

Daniel is briefed regularly in proceedings for and against Australia’s key regulatory agencies including the ACCC, ASIC, AUSTRAC, the AFP, the TGA, the OAIC and the New South Wales Crime Commission.

Since 2018, he has been a lecturer in Competition and Consumer law at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney.

He has lectured in Evidence Law, Civil Procedure and Public Law at the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and the Australian National University.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Daniel practised as a solicitor in the disputes teams at Clayton Utz and the Australian Government Solicitor. He was an Associate to the Hon Rodney Madgwick KC in the Federal Court of Australia and was a legal and political adviser to the Hon Robert McClelland MP.

Daniel has a Bachelor of Science (Psych) Hons (Dean’s List) and a Bachelor of Laws (Dean’s List) from the University of New South Wales.

He was the John W. Kirkwood Scholar in the Faculty of Law at UNSW. He has completed a Master of Law at Cambridge University.

Daniel is the co-author of Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials 7^th ed, 2023, Thomson Reuters.