Jamil Mustafa

Called to the Bar 2018

Jamil joined South Square as a tenant in October 2020.

Jamil accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ core areas of practice including insolvency and restructuring, banking and finance, commercial litigation and arbitration, offshore litigation, company law and civil fraud. He appears both led and unled in the High Court.

He is developing a practice with a dual focus on insolvency and restructuring and commercial litigation. He has been involved in high-profile insolvencies and restructurings, including that of Greensill Capital and the heavily contested restructuring of McDermott (Re CB&I UK Ltd). On the commercial litigation side, Jamil acted (with Adam Al-Attar) for the successful claimant bank in its claims for repayment of c.US$86 million of loans provided to the Venezuelan state oil company in Banco San Juan Internacional v Petróleos de Venezuela S.A, and on behalf of the administrators of JD Classics Limited in respect of claims against the founder and former director of the company, in JD Classics Limited v Hood (led by Adam-Al Attar) and against its former statutory auditor, in JD Classics Limited v PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (led by Anneliese Day KC (Fountain Court) and Adam Al-Attar).

Before coming to the Bar, Jamil graduated with a First-Class degree in Government and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was then awarded a Master of Philosophy degree in American History with Distinction from the University of Cambridge where he ranked first in his class. Subsequently, Jamil obtained a Distinction on the Graduate Diploma in Law from City, and in the year before commencing pupillage, studied the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Distinction.

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