Philip Judd

Called to the Bar 2017

Phil enjoys a broad practice which encompasses all areas of practice at South Square, with particular specialisms in domestic and cross-border insolvency, offshore, chancery and commercial litigation. He has wide experience of all aspects of insolvency work – in which he is ranked as a leading junior by Legal 500 – and frequently appears unled in the High Court.

Much of Phil’s work has an international component, and he has advised in matters involving disputes in Hong Kong, the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey. He is developing significant experience in the recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings and was recently instructed in the recognition of significant bankruptcy and related corporate insolvency process in Abu Dhabi under the CBIR 2006 in Re Almuhairi and Ors [2024] EWHC 535 (Ch). He also has significant experience acting for officeholders. He is instructed by the joint administrators in Re Hartley Pensions and regularly advises officeholders as to their powers, dispositions and appointments.

In addition, Phil undertakes a significant amount of commercial and arbitration work without any insolvency element. He has acted in a range of applications for injunctive relief, including for freezing orders and anti-suit injunctions, and is comfortable dealing with matters on an urgent basis. In his arbitration work he has recently advised in an appeal to the Mauritian supreme court, in an ICC arbitration concerning geothermal power plants worth $2bn, and obtained wide-ranging anti-suit relief in Essar Projects Limited v CIJE Kuwait.

Phil has significant advocacy experience, having in his early years of practice appeared in a range of interlocutory applications and multi-day trials as sole counsel.

Before coming to the Bar, Phil graduated with a First Class degree in History from Oxford University. He then worked in consulting, initially working in financial services where he was involved in the largest restructure of a UK bank since the financial crisis, before then spending two years in mergers and acquisitions. Prior to pupillage, Phil was awarded Middle Temple’s top scholarship for his legal training, and won the Rosamund Smith Moot Competition.

South Square Commercial Litigation and Arbitration +
South Square Insolvency +
South Square Offshore +
South Square Company Law +
South Square Trusts and Property +
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