Peter specialises in corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance law, offshore litigation, commercial litigation and international arbitration, and company law. He is ranked in the Legal 500 as a Tier 1 Leading Junior for offshore commercial disputes and recommended as being “unbelievably thorough” with “a very good analytical eye”.
Peter is instructed on numerous high-profile insolvency and restructuring cases, including Credit Suisse v SoftBank (which appeared in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2025), China Aoyuan, and FTX Trading. He has a particular focus on financial matters and distressed debt situations, and acts as sole counsel and as junior counsel to senior members of Chambers in large-scale financial and commercial litigation and arbitration.
Peter also has a significant offshore and international practice and is admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the Virgin Islands (BVI) and the New York State Bar. He acted as sole counsel for the successful bondholders in the BVI Commercial Court and the ECSC Court of Appeal in Re Haimen Zhongnan, the leading BVI case on bondholder standing. He has also been instructed in matters involving The Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, and Guernsey, and has appeared (led) in the Privy Council.
Peter is also developing an international arbitration practice and is instructed in multiple high-value international commercial arbitrations. He has experience of proceedings under LCIA, SCC, HKIAC, and ad hoc rules.
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.
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 (where he won the private international law prize).
Insolvency and Restructuring +
Banking and Finance +
Offshore and International +
Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration +
Company +
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‘Peter is unbelievably thorough. He has a very good analytical eye.’
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Tier 1 Leading Junior – Offshore (Commercial Disputes)
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