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Ryan Perkins
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Ryan has experience in all of South Square’s core practice areas, including domestic and cross-border insolvency, banking and finance, commercial litigation, company law and offshore work.
Ryan has recently been instructed in the following cases (among others): Centaur Litigation SPC v Terrill, Edgeworth Capital Luxembourg SARL v Maud, Re China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd (decision of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, 25 November 2015), Re Angel Group Ltd, Re Codere Finance (UK) Ltd, Re Indah Kiat International Finance Company BV.
In 2016, Ryan was appointed as specialist legal adviser to the Work and Pensions and Business Innovation and Skills House of Commons Select Committees in relation to the BHS inquiry.
During his pupillage, Ryan assisted in a number of significant cases, in all tribunals up to the Supreme Court – including the Lehman Brothers Waterfall II application, the Madoff fraud (Primeo Fund v HSBC), derivatives litigation arising from the insolvency of Landsbanki and other Icelandic credit institutions, the Saad litigation in the Cayman Islands, and transactional work on a securitisation programme originated by Northern Rock.
Ryan is a contributor to the forthcoming editions and supplements of Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws, and has written for several other practitioners’ textbooks and journals on cross-border insolvency and structured finance.
Ryan enjoys technical work, and has a close familiarity with most forms of derivatives (OTC and exchange-traded), syndicated lending structures, securitisation programmes, dematerialised securities and collective investment schemes.
Career
Called 2014 (Gray’s Inn)
Education
Called to the Bar (Gray’s Inn) 2014. City University, GDL (Distinction), University of Oxford (University College), BPhil Philosophy (Distinction), University of Warwick, BA (Hons) Philosophy (First Class), Purcell School of Music.
Leisure
Music, logic, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
The ‘go-to set for all restructuring and insolvency mandates,‘ South Square has established an international presence in banking and financial litigation, having appeared in high-profile disputes including cases which give rise to issues of significant market importance, generally crossing over with the set’s pre-eminence in the insolvency space. One such example is the case of Galapagos Bidco SARL v Kebekus; Barings (UK) Ltd v Galapagos which saw Tom Smith KC, Daniel Bayfield KC, David Alexander KC, Henry Phillips and Ryan Perkins appear in a dispute arising out of a €1bn multi-jurisdictional finance restructuring, raising novel issues in relation to enforcement powers under intercreditor agreements, after a German court had wound up the company which was subject to an English administration petition. Richard Fisher KC has a good practice advising banks, hedge funds and trade parties in relation to structured finance issues and derivatives contacts, while Georgina Peters is noted for her work in high-profile banking disputes involving securisations, capital markets issuances and derivatives using ISDA contracts.