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Felicity Toube KC

Felicity Toube KC

South Square, London

Position

Felicity Toube QC specialises in domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring, banking and financial services, commercial litigation, civil fraud, and company law. Felicity is regularly instructed in cases in the Cayman Islands and the BVI. She acts as an expert (in the laws of England and other common law jurisdictions) in international proceedings (including in the USA).

Felicity has acted on all the recent major corporate insolvencies, including: Gategroup, Jain Group, NMC, Pizza Express, Smile Telecoms, Codere, Swissport, Carluccios, Debenhams, Matalan, Saad, Madoff, Peak Hotels, Lehman, Stanford, Nortel, and MF Global. She also acted for the successful supporting creditor in the Gertner appeal.

She is a mediator (ADR Group), an arbitrator (CiArb), and Co-Chair of the INSOL Mediation Colloquium.

Felicity’s publications include: Moss, Fletcher & Isaacs on the EU Regulation, Toube on "International Asset Tracing in Insolvency" (OUP), Halsbury’s Laws on Corporate Insolvency. Felicity is Chair of the Editorial Board of Insolvency Intelligence, a Board member of III, and Chair of the Appeal Panel for ICAS.

She also teaches on the BCL course at Oxford University and is currently undertaking a part-time DPhil in Law at Oxford University, focussing on issues of cross-border insolvency.

Career

Called 1995 (Inner Temple); QC 2011; Called to the Bar of the Cayman Islands 2012; ADR Group Accredited Civil & Commercial Mediator 2015; appointed to INSOL International Mediation Panel 2015.

Memberships

COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; International Association for Asset Recovery; Insolvency Service/ILA committees on the EU regulation and UNCITRAL.

Education

Magdalen College, Oxford University (1994 BCL, First Class).

Mentions

The English Bar Offshore

Commercial disputes

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Felicity Toube KC – South Square ‘You cannot say enough good things about Felicity. She is exceptionally sharp, quick-witted, and responsive, and her writing and advocacy style is clear, forceful, and succinct.'
London Bar

Commercial litigation

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Felicity Toube KC –South Square 'Super smart, pragmatic, commercial, proactive, and approachable.'
London Bar

Company

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Felicity Toube KC – South Square
London Bar

Fraud: civil

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Felicity Toube KC –South Square 'She is ferociously bright, whilst at the same time being exceptionally user-friendly and responsive. She has judges eating out of her hand.'
London Bar

Insolvency

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Felicity Toube KC – South Square