Andrew Foyle
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Band 2 : Banking Litigation
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Practice Areas
Andrew is a Partner and joint head of our dispute resolution and litigation team based in Edinburgh. His clients are primarily financial institutions for whom he acts in a range of litigation matters, including contractual disputes, general banking litigation, recoveries and the pursuit of professional negligence actions. Andrew also acts for a range of commercial clients and insolvency practitioners. Recent examples of his work include successfully defending a lender in a multi-million pound claim for damages raised against them by a former customer where it was claimed that they had acted negligently in their approach to realisation of securities, strategic advice to a lender in relation to a major remediation project, and a reported case which further clarified the law relating to pre-action requirements under the Home Owner & Debtor Protection (Scotland) Act 2010.
Career
Andrew joined Shoosmiths as a partner in 2013 following more than a decade at an Edinburgh firm where he latterly managed their banking litigation team. Prior to that, Andrew was a researcher at the Scottish Law Commission where his projects included the Report on Poindings and Warrant Sales, and the Report on Diligence.
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Andrew Foyle is joint head of the Scottish dispute resolution and litigation practice at Shoosmiths. He is a solicitor advocate and is experienced in handling a range of financial disputes including banking fraud, debt recovery and mis-selling claims.
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"Andrew is an experienced, sensible and pragmatic commercial litigator."
"He's an excellent partner and is very good technically."
"Andrew takes a no-nonsense approach to things – he's pragmatic. I'm not afraid to explain a problem to him, as I know he'll be able to help out. His core skills are on the debt recovery side too."
"He provides us with great advice, is commercially aware and keeps us up to date with the proceedings."
"Andrew is an experienced, sensible and pragmatic commercial litigator."
"He's an excellent partner and is very good technically."
"Andrew takes a no-nonsense approach to things – he's pragmatic. I'm not afraid to explain a problem to him, as I know he'll be able to help out. His core skills are on the debt recovery side too."
"He provides us with great advice, is commercially aware and keeps us up to date with the proceedings."
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