NOVEMBER 2016
SOUTH SQUARE DIGEST
Madeleine Jones Madeleine studied Classics at Cambridge, where she obtained a double first class degree, and at Princeton, where she wrote a PhD on Seneca, a Roman philosopher who believed that perfect happiness is to be attained only through the contemplation of divine justice. Inspired by this, she returned to England to become a lawyer, assisted by Gray’s Inn’s most prestigious scholarships for the GDL and BPTC, the David Karmel Entrance Award and the Bedingfield Scholarship. During her pupillage at South Square, Madeleine was supervised by Adam Al-Attar, Daniel Bayfield QC, Marcus Haywood, Georgina Peters, Stephen Robins, Tom Smith QC and William Willson. Consequently, she has been exposed to all of chambers’ principal areas of practice, including insolvency, bankruptcy, general commercial, company and finance. She gained extensive experience in drafting and advisory work relating to insolvency matters (including cross-border insolvency), financial regulatory matters and banking disputes, and assisted in the preparation for several substantial cases, including the Saad and Primeo litigation (which are ongoing in the Cayman Islands). Madeleine is delighted to have been invited to be a tenant at South Square and is looking forward to getting stuck in to practice.
Edoardo Lupi Edoardo graduated from Oxford University with a Congratulatory First Class degree in Classics, obtaining the second highest mark in his year. He was awarded the De Paravicini prize by the University, and the Haigh Prize by Corpus Christi College. He then completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at City University, where he was runner up to the 7KBW Contract Law Prize. He was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 2015, from which he received a prize for achieving a grade of ‘Outstanding’ on the BPTC, an Exhibition Award for both his law conversion and BPTC years, and the Allan Levy Award. Edoardo has spent time working at McKinsey in Milan, where he was part of a team reorganizing one of Europe’s largest credit institutions, and in the Economic Crimes and Governance Division at the Attorney General’s Chambers in Singapore. He also marshalled for Mr Justice Dingemans in the High Court. During pupillage at South Square, Edoardo was exposed to all of chambers’ core areas of practice, including cross-border and domestic insolvency, banking, company law, commercial litigation and offshore. He sat with Tom Smith QC, Daniel Bayfield QC, Richard Fisher, Stephen Robins, Marcus Haywood, William Willson, Georgina Peters and Adam Al-Attar. Notable cases he assisted on as a pupil include the Lehman Brothers Waterfall II Application, Heis v MF Global UK Services Limited in the Court of Appeal, and Primeo Fund v HSBC.
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