SOUTH SQUARE - Key Persons
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- Support Staff Member
- Admissions & Membership Services Manager
‘The clerks are very easy to deal with, business-orientated, and you can always get hold of them after hours.'
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- Assistant
- Practice Manager
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- Professor of Law at the Humboldt - Universität
Christoph G. Paulus has been a professor of law at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany from 1994 to 2019 - holding a chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Insolvency Law and ancient Roman Law. Before that he was teaching i.a. at the university of Heidelberg and of Saarbrücken. He had studied law at the University of Munich and has done his LL.M. at the University of California in Berkeley. Being an expert primarily in insolvency law, Prof. Paulus has worked several times as a consultant of the IMF and of the World Bank. Moreover, from 2006 through 2011, he worked as an adviser of the German delegation on the UNCITRAL insolvency law sessions. He has lectured worldwide and has held guest professorships at various universities; additionally, he is member of various international institutions such as the American College of Bankruptcy or the International Insolvency Institute (of which he has been a Vicepresident until summer 2017). Since his retirement in spring 2019 he is Associate Member of South Square, London, and since September 1, 2019 Of Counsel with White & Case, Berlin.
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- Receptionist
- Support Staff Member
Job Titles:
- Receptionist
- Support Staff Member
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- Office Manager
- Support Staff Member
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- Assistant
- Practice Manager
John specialises in domestic and cross-border insolvency, commercial and chancery litigation, professional negligence and disciplinary proceedings (involving insolvency practitioners), partnerships, financial services and proceeds of crime.
Over the years John has appeared in many high profile cases particularly in the field of personal insolvency, insolvent partnerships and deceased insolvents, including Kevin Maxwell, Asil Nadir, Jonathan Aitken, Kerry Katona, Sean Quinn, Seifert Sedley (solicitors), Nicholas Phillips (the Queen's cousin - deceased), Boris Berezovsky (Russian oligarch - deceased) and Boris Becker.
John is described in Chambers & Partners 2017 (Band 1) as having a "wealth of experience and a fantastic bedside manner with the clients." "His advice is clear and timely, and his knowledge and understanding of the Bankruptcy Court is invaluable."
For many years John has been the Joint Senior Author of the leading insolvency textbook Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency. He was until recently a Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge of the High Court in London and is now a member of the IPA's Regulation and Conduct Committee. Before practising as a barrister, John was a jurist-linguist in French and Italian at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
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- Assistant
- Practice Manager
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- Finance Assistant
- Support Staff Member
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- Team Leader
- King 's Counsel
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- Finance Director
- Support Staff Member
Job Titles:
- Receptionist
- Support Staff Member