Angus joined South Square as a tenant in October 2024
Angus accepts instructions in Chambers’ core areas of practice, including banking and finance work, offshore litigation, corporate restructuring and insolvency, company law and commercial litigation and arbitration. Angus also accepts instructions raising issues of tax law—including both pure tax disputes as well as matters involving contract, trust and fraud issues with a tax element—and he particularly welcomes instructions including issues of economic and financial analysis.
During pupillage, Angus assisted on a wide range of insolvency and commercial work. He assisted with advising on insolvency proceedings ranging from complex cross-border insolvencies to domestic administrations and liquidations. He was also involved in litigation arising out of insolvency including in relation to clawback claims by office holders and other company law claims. Angus has also been involved in a range of commercial disputes involving issues of contract, fraud, economic torts, and company law. These have included a number of claims with cross-border elements through which Angus has gained experience of applications to serve proceedings on defendants out of the jurisdiction.
Angus has also been involved in proceedings in bankruptcy, including in relation to statutory demands and in relation to the Court’s jurisdiction to make a bankruptcy order (Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC [2024] EWHC 521 (Ch), Sabbah v Abela [2024] EWHC 1790 (Ch)).
Angus has gained substantial experience on the restructuring side of Chambers’ practice—being involved in restructuring plans including Re CB&I UK Limited (McDermott), Re Project Lietzenburger Strabe Holdco SARL (Aggregate), Re AGPS Bondco Plc (Adler), Re C-Retail Limited (Superdry), Re Cine-UK Limited (Cineworld) as well as a number of schemes of arrangement. Angus was also involved in the Re Consort Healthcare (Tameside) Plc restructuring plan which saw the first application for security for costs in English restructuring proceedings.
Angus has also been involved in offshore work. This has included assisting members of Chambers in relation to the insolvencies of Three Arrows Capital Limited (in liquidation in the BVIs, and also in relation to proceedings in the Cayman Islands) and China Evergrande Group (in liquidation in Hong Kong, and in relation to proceedings in the BVIs and in the Cayman Islands).
Before pupillage, Angus worked for a leading tax KC during which time he was involved in tax advisory work as well as in litigation in the tax tribunals and in the Courts from the High Court to the Supreme Court. Angus gained experience across all areas of revenue law, assisting on matters involving Income Tax, VAT, Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Stamp Duty Land Tax and ATED, Inheritance Tax, Customs Duty and Import VAT. During pupillage, Angus was involved in the Mercy Global proceedings which arose out of a major VAT fraud.
Angus graduated with a double first from his undergraduate studies in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Junior and then Senior Scholar, before going to read for an MPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. At Oxford he was awarded both the prize for best overall performance in his first year and the George Webb Medley Prize for achieving the highest marks in the written papers in his second year. He was awarded the Lord Bowen Scholarship to study the PGDL and the Lord Denning Scholarship to study the Bar Course.
Angus is an economist and research fellow at a leading Westminster think tank where he has presented his research at the highest levels of Government. This experience gives Angus a particular fluency and advantage in matters involving economic, accounting and other financial analysis.
Insolvency & Restructuring +
Commercial Litigation and Arbitration +
Banking & Finance +
Company Law +
Offshore +
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