Company Law
South Square plays a major role in company law cases. Our members regularly appear in litigation arising out of shareholders’ disputes, derivative proceedings and claims relating to directors’ duties. Recent high profile cases in this respect include Smithton v Naggar (directors’ duties), McKillen v Barclay (unfair prejudice) and Jackson v Dear (derivative proceedings).
Members of Chambers are the authors of the leading textbook on directors’ duties: Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies (Mortimore, OUP), and also contribute to Gore Browne on Companies.
Other matters which call for our expertise include schemes of arrangement, reductions of capital, shareholders’ agreements, joint venture agreements and technical issues of statutory interpretation arising under the Companies Act 2006 and other statutes.
Our members have been involved in nearly all the recent high-profile schemes of arrangement, including Apcoa, Magyar Telecom, Fitness First, Travelodge, Yellow Pages, Seat Pagines, Rodenstock, PrimaCom and NCP.
'A strong platform for clients seeking advice and advocacy in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious company law issues.'Chambers & Partners

Our barristers
The following members of South Square specialise in Company Law:- Michael Crystal QC
- Gabriel Moss QC
- Richard Hacker QC
- Mark Phillips QC
- Robin Dicker QC
- William Trower QC
- Martin Pascoe QC
- Fidelis Oditah QC
- David Alexander QC
- Glen Davis QC
- Barry Isaacs QC
- Felicity Toube QC
- Mark Arnold QC
- Jeremy Goldring QC
- David Allison QC
- Tom Smith QC
- Daniel Bayfield QC
- Adam Goodison
- Hilary Stonefrost
- Lloyd Tamlyn
- Richard Fisher
- Stephen Robins
- Marcus Haywood
- Hannah Thornley
- William Willson
- Georgina Peters
- Adam Al-Attar
- Henry Phillips
- Charlotte Cooke
- Matthew Abraham
- Toby Brown
- Robert Amey
- Andrew Shaw
- Riz Mokal
- Madeleine Jones
- Edoardo Lupi
- Rose Lagram-Taylor
- Stefanie Wilkins
- Lottie Pyper