Lara Kuehl

Lara is a barrister practising at Serle Court. She specialises in contentious insolvency and company matters, commercial litigation and arbitration, civil fraud/asset recovery and property litigation. Lara has particular expertise in disputes arising at the intersection between her disciplines, such as company or civil fraud matters involving an insolvency aspect. She is highly regarded for her advocacy and, in the majority of her cases, she acts as lead or sole advocate. She frequently appears (unled) against senior juniors or KCs. However, she is equally comfortable acting as junior counsel led by more senior barristers from within or outside chambers, as she is currently doing across a range of cases in England and internationally.

Consistently ranked as a leading junior barrister in the legal directories, Lara is currently recommended in three practice areas (insolvency, commercial litigation and property litigation) across the 2025 (London Bar) editions of the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Lara is on the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown and regularly advises and represents HMRC, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the Official Receiver and the Insolvency Service in insolvency-related matters, including winding-up petitions (and related injunctions) and directors disqualification proceedings.