Imogen joined South Square as a tenant in October 2023.
Imogen 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. She regularly appears in both the High Court and County Court on a variety of insolvency, company and civil procedure applications and is accustomed to acting on both a led and unled basis.
Imogen is also developing a busy restructuring practice. She recently acted as junior counsel to the plan company in the highly contested Link Fund Solutions scheme of arrangement which considered complex matters of consumer redress through the FSCS and the FOS. She also acted company side in both the People’s Energy and Praesidiad Limited restructurings; the latter required consideration of Russian sanctions legislation.
Imogen recently completed a secondment at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer during which she worked on a number of matters including the GTLK Europe liquidation and a complex professional negligence claim.
During pupillage, Imogen assisted on a broad variety of matters spanning the full range of insolvency and commercial work as well as work relating to complex financial instruments and services including the breach of exclusivity litigation launched by IS Prime Limited regarding the provision of matched principal brokerage services in FX and index swaps. She also assisted with Re Sova Capital Ltd. [2023] EWHC 452 (Ch), which involved the first approval by an English Court of an unsecured credit bid against a background of interlocking US, UK and Russian sanction restrictions, as well as multiple cases triggered by the collapse of Greensill Capital including a $440 million claim lodged by Credit Suisse against SoftBank Group Corp based on section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
Imogen has also gained extensive experience in the restructuring side of Chambers’ practice and was involved in the preparation for multiple contested restructuring plan sanction applications including Re AGPS Bondco Plc, Re Nasmyth Group Ltd, Re Prezzo Investco Ltd and Re Fitness First Clubs Ltd.
Imogen studied undergraduate law at the University of Cambridge before going on to read for an LLM specialising in Commercial and Corporate Law at The London School of Economics and Political Science, from which she graduated with a Distinction. She was also awarded the Colombos Public International Law Essay Prize, a Queen Mother Scholarship and a Certificate of Honour by Middle Temple prior to joining South Square.
Insolvency and Restructuring +
Banking and Finance +
Commercial Litigation & Arbitration +
Offshore +
Company Law +
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