Peter specialises in Chambers’ core areas of practice, including banking and finance law, offshore litigation, corporate restructuring and insolvency, company law, and commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Peter has a particular focus on financial matters and distressed debt situations, assisted by his experience as a solicitor and his admission in New York. He acts as sole counsel and as junior counsel to senior members of Chambers in large-scale banking, financial, and commercial cases.
Peter is also developing a significant international practice, having appeared unled in the BVI Commercial Court and the ECSC Court of Appeal, as well as instructed in matters involving the major offshore jurisdictions. He has a particular interest in issues of private international law, with experience of numerous cross-border matters and having won the prize for private international law at Harvard Law School.
Before joining South Square, Peter worked as a Judicial Assistant to Lord Sales, Lord Lloyd-Jones, and Lord Hamblen at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, assisting the Justices on numerous high-profile cases including: R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister, on whether the advice given by the Prime Minister to the Queen that Parliament should be prorogued was lawful; Micula & Others v Romania, relating to the attempted enforcement of an investment arbitration award against Romania; and Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd, on the ‘reflective loss’ principle.
Peter is a former solicitor-advocate, with experience at a magic circle firm and a US law firm, working on banking, insolvency, and commercial litigation as well as international commercial and investor-state arbitration. He holds a first-class BA in Ancient and Modern History from the University of Oxford (where he was first in his year), a first-class LLB from the University of Law, and an LLM from Harvard Law School.
Insolvency & Restructuring +
Banking & Finance +
Offshore +
Commercial Litigation & International Arbitration +
Company +
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