Andrew Horton

Practice Areas

Andrew has over 30 years of experience in litigating and arbitrating all types of disputes, with particular expertise in shipping and international trade. Areas of expertise include bills of lading, charterparties, marine insurance policies, documentary credits, sales contracts, trade credit insurance disputes, joint ventures, distribution and logistics agreements, ship building disputes and ship management issues as well as air and road transportation and warehousing disputes.

Andrew also deals with general commercial litigation including insolvency disputes. He has built up a great deal of experience in enforcement and security actions over the Asia region including ship arrests and injunctions. His clients include insurance companies, banks, trading houses, P&I clubs, vessel owners and charterers, recovery agents, liquidators and litigation funders.

In Hong Kong he deals with litigation in the local courts having conducted cases up to the Court of Final Appeal. Andrew’s team have historically issued/ been involved in over 50% of cases conducted in the specialist Admiralty List.

As a lawyer qualified in England and Wales since 1993, Andrew regularly conducts arbitrations in London, Australia, Singapore, China, India, New York. He also has global litigation experience involving cases heard in US, Canada, Panama, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Kenya, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, as well as virtually every country across Asia Pacific and most European countries.

Andrew is an appointed arbitrator in the HKIAC approved list for the Marine Arbitrators’ Group. He is an executive committee member of the admiralty court users committee and a former secretary of the Hong Kong Maritime Law Association.

Professional Memberships

Former Secretary, Hong Kong Maritime law Association

Executive Member, The Admiralty Court Users’ Committee

Languages Spoken

English