
Annabelle joined South Square as a tenant in October 2021.
Annabelle 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.
During pupillage, Annabelle assisted on a broad variety of matters spanning Chambers’ practice areas including the subordinated debt litigation arising out the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Re Lehman Brothers Holdings PLC (in administration)); several schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans (for example, Re Smile Telecoms Holdings ltd and Re Steinhoff International Holdings NV) and litigation concerning the reflective loss principle in relation to a Ponzi scheme. Annabelle also assisted on a number of offshore matters, including the appointment of provisional liquidators and privilege issues in the British Virgin Islands.
As a pupil, Annabelle drafted pleadings in a number of matters including a complex brokerage misrepresentation claim, an unfair prejudice petition and an application for an anti-suit injunction. She drafted advice on points including the compliance of a restructuring plan with an intercreditor agreement, challenging asset transfers at an undervalue, recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings and rectification of a members’ register.
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.





