Charlotte joined South Square as a tenant in October 2024.
Charlotte welcomes instructions in Chambers’ core areas of practice, including corporate restructuring and insolvency, commercial litigation and arbitration, civil fraud, company law, offshore litigation and banking and finance work, in which Charlotte takes a particular interest drawing from her previous experience working in investment banking.
During her pupillage, Charlotte assisted on a broad variety of matters spanning the full range of Chambers’ areas of practice, including domestic and cross-border insolvency, civil fraud and commercial litigation engaging issues of contract, company, tort and trusts law. Charlotte has also assisted with numerous offshore matters including the Three Arrows Capital litigation in the BVI and NMC Healthcare in the ADGM as well as proceedings brought in this jurisdiction involving contested issues under a foreign law.
Charlotte has also gained extensive experience of Chambers’ contentious restructuring work, assisting on matters including Re CB&I UK (McDermott), Re Project Leitzenburger (Aggregate), Re AGPS Bondco Plc and Re Link Funds Solutions Ltd.
Prior to joining South Square, Charlotte spent five years working for Citibank in both Switzerland and London.
In London, Charlotte worked in the Corporate and Investment Bank covering clients in the Industrials sector. She assisted with the origination and execution of a wide array of corporate debt transactions including acquisition financing facilities, bilateral and syndicated lending including UK Export Finance guaranteed facilities, emergency COVID bridge loans, investment grade and high yield bond issuances and private debt placements. During this time Charlotte also supported senior colleagues with a client going through a Chapter 11 restructuring.
In Switzerland, Charlotte worked in the Private Bank where she passed the CFA Level 1 exam and gained a broad exposure to investments across all asset classes including strategic solutions to diversify and extract liquidity from concentrated stock portfolios.
Charlotte has a first class degree in History from the University of Oxford where she graduated second in her year, winning the Gibbs Prize (Proxime Accessit) and the Robert Herbert Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate thesis in Global History.
After deciding to change career and come to the Bar, Charlotte gained Distinctions on the GDL and Bar Course at City, University of London. She was awarded the David Karmel and Bedingfield Scholarships by Gray’s Inn (the Inn’s most prestigious scholarships) in each year of her training and also won the Maitland Advocacy Prize.
Insolvency and Restructuring +
Banking and Finance +
Commercial Litigation & Arbitration +
Offshore +
Company Law +
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