Andrew is a leading advocate practising in Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud. He acts in among the most high-value and high-profile commercial and fraud disputes before the English Courts, typically in cases with an international or cross-border element.

Andrew is ranked in each of these practice areas in the leading UK legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Recent comments include:

  • "... exceptional in every way. His advice is always well considered, his drafting is succinct and effective and his oral advocacy is lasered." - Chambers & Partners, 2024
  • "... a fantastic advocate. He has an unmatched ability to take complex legal and factual arguments and present them in a way which is both simple, and overwhelmingly persuasive."- Chambers & Partners, 2024
  • "An extremely effective advocate, with a striking and unusual style on his feet. He has great judgement of key tactical and strategic issues."- Legal 500, 2024

Previous comments include:

  • "He is incredible - he is calm and reassuring to clients and has a commanding presence in court."- Chambers UK, 2023
  • "Fiercely intelligent, calm under fire and excellent considered advocacy."- Legal 500, 2023

As a junior, Andrew was named the Commercial Litigation Junior of the Year in the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards 2019. Andrew was also recognised in 2019 as one of the top ten Commercial Litigation juniors under 8 years' call by Legal 500 and selected by Legal Week as a star of the bar in 2014.

Andrew has also been recognised in the JUVE Patent UK Rankings on account of his work in cross-border patent litigation (in particular in cases involving jurisdiction disputes) and is again recommended in the 2023 edition.

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Commercial

Andrew is frequently instructed on commercial cases, both as a leader or as part of a team. He regularly appears in all divisions of the High Court and Court of Appeal, and has experience of a wide range of trial work and interlocutory proceedings. 

Andrew has a particular interest and expertise in disputes about the English Court’s jurisdiction and associated matters such as stays, anti-suit injunctive relief, and jurisdictional immunities. He has worked on a number of the leading cases in this field recent years, including several in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

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Civil Fraud, Asset Recovery & Injunctive Relief

Andrew has worked on a number of high-profile civil fraud disputes, both as a leader or as part of a team.

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Restructuring & Insolvency

Andrew has been involved in several high profile cross-border insolvency disputes, acting for officeholders, bondholders, and secured creditors in connection with proceedings in England and various foreign jurisdictions (including the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Singapore, and the Middle East). He frequently advises on restructuring transactions, in particular those with a foreign element.

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Arbitration

Andrew has significant experience of high-value domestic and international arbitration, acting both as sole counsel and with a leader. He has appeared before a variety of tribunals in various jurisdictions. He has experience of both ad hoc arbitration (and in particular in the Bermuda Form context) and institutional arbitration under ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, and ICSID Rules.

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Public International Law

Consistently with the international focus of Andrew’s practice, he is often instructed to appear in proceedings before the English Courts raising international law issues or to advise regarding them. He has a particular interest and expertise in relation to jurisdictional immunities and has appeared in some of the leading cases in this field in recent years.

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Financial Services & Banking

Andrew was seconded to the Financial Services Authority for 5 months in 2012, and has since worked on a variety financial regulatory disputes for regulated individuals, entities, and regulators.

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Media & Entertainment

Andrew has acted for media and entertainment clients in a wide range of disputes. 

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Achievements

Education

BA (Oxon) First Class; BCL (Oxon, Vinerian Scholar) Distinction; DPhil (Oxon); BVC (Outstanding)

Prizes & Scholarships

  • Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards 2019 (Commercial Litigation Junior of the Year)
  • Eldon Scholarship (most promising graduate of Oxford University intending to practise at the Bar, 2009)
  • Vinerian Scholarship (best performance in the BCL)
  • Oxford University Examination Prizes (restitution, jurisprudence and political theory, contract law, constitutional Law)

Publications

  • Réunion revised? [2008] LMCLQ 113 (case note on Case C-98/06 Freeport v Arnoldssen)
  • A Commentary on the Rome II Regulation: Choice of Law for Non-contractual Obligations [2008] LMCLQ 274 (co-written)
  • ‘The Scope of Non-Contractual Obligations’ in J Ahern and W Binchy, eds., The Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (Brill, Leiden, 2009)
  • Total Chaos? [2010] LMCLQ 536 (case note on Shell UK Ltd v Total Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 180, co-written)
  • ‘The territorial scope of British employment legislation’ [2010] LMCLQ 640
  • ‘International private law’, in International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, 2009- (co-written)
  • ‘Decisions of British Courts during involving questions of private international law’ in British Yearbook of International Law, 2010- date 
  • Andrew was on the advisory group which assisted Professor Andrew Burrows in producing A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment  (OUP, 2012)
  • The ‘Cross-Border Disputes’ chapter in P Goulding (ed) Employee Competition (3rd edn) (forthcoming) (co-written)

Research & Lecturing

Before coming to the Bar, Andrew was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research addressed various topics in commercial private international law. At Oxford, Andrew was also a college tutor, teaching contract, tort, land and trusts law. He has also given graduate seminars on restitution and conflict of laws.

  • Andrew has given lectures and seminars at practitioner and academic conferences, recent topics including: 
  • “The enforcement in the UK of foreign judgments obtained in breach of an arbitration clause” (London Shipping Law Centre)
  • “What is a non-contractual obligation?” (Trinity College Dublin; Max Plank Institute, Hamburg)
  • “From Samengo-Turner to Duarte” (British Institute in International and Comparative Law seminar at Herbert Smith)
  • “The litigation (and arbitration) of international employment disputes” (New York University)
  • “Characterization problems in employment disputes” (Trinity College Dublin)
  • “Synergies between the Brussels I Regulation and Rome I and II Regulations” (British Institute of International and Comparative Law)

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