Annabelle Wang - Commercial Barrister

South Square is a leading set of commercial law barristers. Our members have acted in many of the most important restructuring, insolvency, banking, commercial, company and fraud-related disputes of recent times. We are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.

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Annabelle joined South Square as a tenant in October 2021.

Annabelle accepts instructions in Chambers’ core areas of practice, including corporate restructuring and insolvency, company law, banking and finance work and commercial litigation and arbitration. Annabelle frequently appears in the High Court and the County Court on a variety of insolvency, company, and civil procedure applications, on an urgent and non-urgent basis.

Annabelle has experience in a range of commercial matters. In 2025, Annabelle acted as junior counsel to a group of noteholders in proceedings in the Financial List concerning a novel point of law as to the ability of ultimate beneficial holders of notes to seek declaratory relief as to the effect and meaning of such notes (Caxton International Ltd v Essity Aktiebolag). In 2023, Annabelle acted for the liquidators of Abraaj Holdings (led by Tom Smith KC) in a high-profile dispute in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands arising out of the well-publicised collapse of the Abraaj Group, one of the world’s largest private equity emerging market investors, in their claims that payments in the sum of over $200million made to funds within the Group were voidable preferences or dispositions of property at an undervalue.

Annabelle is also developing a strong restructuring practice. Her recent restructuring work includes acting as junior counsel to the plan company in the landmark Adler restructuring plan (Re AGPS Bondco PLC) before the High Court and the Court of Appeal, acting as junior counsel to the Plan Company in Sino-Ocean Group Holding Ltd and acting as junior counsel to the SteerCo in Waldorf Production UK Plc.

Annabelle holds a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, receiving an Academic Exhibition and Scholarship. She subsequently received a Distinction on the Graduate Diploma in Law and was called to the Bar by Inner Temple, receiving an Exhibition Award.