Hannah Thornley
- 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 hannahthornley@southsquare.com.
- Web www.southsquare.com
- Education and Professional career:
- Called to the Bar October 2003 (Middle Temple);
- Pupillage: 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn: 2003 – 2004;
- Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law: 2002 – 2003;
- Brasenose College, Oxford BCL (Masters in Law): 2001 – 2002;
- Downing College, Cambridge MA (Law): 1998 – 2001.
- Areas of practice:
- International and Domestic Company and Insolvency law, with particular experience and interest in the Duties of Directors and Fraud;
- General Commercial and International Litigation;
- Trusts, Property, Banking and Finance, Professional Negligence.
- Biography:
- Hannah is an experienced advocate and litigator. She appears regularly in the High Court and advises on both domestic and international cases which are often of a complex or urgent nature. After her studies of company and commercial law at Cambridge University and her study of corporate insolvency law at Oxford University, Hannah has built up a wealth of expertise in disputes relating to companies and insolvencies, as well as cases which include general commercial, contractual and corporate issues during her years of practice at the Bar. Hannah has advised, represented or appeared in Court for numerous high profile banks, companies and private individuals. She has a particular interest and extensive experience of the duties of directors in general and specifically in relation to insolvency and fraud situations.