Practice Areas
Andrew heads the firm’s Dispute Resolution department. He is a highly experienced commercial litigator with top-band ranking in the leading independent directories. Legal 500, 2025 says “He is a highly intelligent, focused and commercially-minded partner, who seeks to provide an excellent service to clients. He knows everything there is to know about professional negligence claims, and commercial litigation generally.”
He specialises in high value, complex or portfolios of professional negligence claims, particularly against solicitors, surveyors/valuers, financial advisors and brokers, actuaries, auditors and accountants. He is particularly well-known for his work on behalf of traditional and specialist lenders in this field. His team is “an extremely formidable force on the claimant-side of professional negligence claims…providing city law firm quality out of London” (Legal 500, 2025).
Andrew is a regular speaker and commentator on professional negligence matters, with a keen interest in how liability for the deployment of AI and technology in professional services will evolve.
His practice also includes civil fraud, company and shareholder disputes, contractual disputes across a wide variety of subjects and sectors, urgent injunctive relief to protect his clients’ commercial interests, and product liability.
Andrew is a member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers’ Association and the International Bar Association.
Personal
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; University of East Anglia (LLB Hons); Nottingham Law School. Leisure: National badge hockey umpire.
Trustee of The PROMPT Maternity Foundation.
Experience
Surveyor negligence: Acting for a specialist lender regarding the negligent over-valuation of a shopping centre as security for a £17.75 million loan.
Solicitor negligence: Advising a national retailer on claims against an international law firm arising from disclosure failings.
Financial adviser: Defending a financial adviser against claims of fraudulent misrepresentation, conspiracy and COBS breaches by former clients.
URE Energy: Successful Commercial Court proceedings against Notting Hill Genesis following the termination of a novel energy supply arrangement.
