Georgina Peters
- Contact details:
- 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
- Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.
- LDE338 (Chancery Lane).
- Email georginapeters@southsquare.com.
- Web www.southsquare.com
- Professional career:
- July 2005 Called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn)
- 2005-2006 Réferendaire in the Chambers of Judge Uno Lõhmus at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
- 2005 Stagiaire in the Chambers of Advocate General Francis Jacobs at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
- 2003-2004 Stagiaire at Jeantet Associes (Corporate Finance team at leading French law firm), Paris
- Education:
- MA (Cantab) History (First Class) Christ’s College, Cambridge
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law, City University, London
- Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding), ICSL, London
- Awards and scholarships:
- Sir J. H. Plumb Award (Christ’s College)
- Lord Mansfield Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
- Lord Haldane Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
- J P Warner Award (Lincoln’s Inn)
- Areas of practice:
- International and Domestic Corporate Insolvency and Reconstruction Law; International and Domestic Personal Insolvency Law; Commercial and Chancery Law; Company Law; Commercial Fraud.
- Georgina regularly advises in relation to cross-border issues, the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, in the context of both corporate and personal insolvency.
Recommendations:
In The Lawyer’s Focus: New Faces – The future is bright…. (26 April 2010). Georgina Peters was recommended as one of five “barristers to watch”. Comments included: “…Clients say Peters has the skills and personality to move up the ranks”.
