Andrew Peedom

Andrew has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, with a focus on contentious and non-contentious trust and estate disputes, many of which have a multi-jurisdictional element.

He regularly acts for trustees, settlors, protectors, enforcers and beneficiaries and he also advises on regulatory matters.

Recent matters include:

- Advising a settlor and beneficiaries in relation to foreign proceedings commenced against them and the trustee claiming US$572 million, including allegations the trust was established to defraud creditors and its assets are in fact held on bare trust for the settlor, and representing those parties in related Beddoe proceedings;

- Acting for beneficiaries who assert a proprietary claim to trust assets wrongly transferred from a foreign trust and the wrongful removal of the protector and advising on consequential relief, including reconstituting the trust fund and potential injunctive relief;

- Advising the beneficiaries of several trusts in relation to liquidity issues, a potential third-party proprietary claim to trust assets and realising trust assets to discharge trust liabilities;

- Acting for a trustee in relation to capacity issues of a settlor and advising on a potential variation of a trust deed.

Andrew is frequently asked to speak at conferences on topics pertinent to the trust industry and has also authored numerous articles.

Andrew was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2001, the High Court of Australia in 2003 and as an attorney of the Cayman Islands in 2017.

He has worked offshore since 2010, first in Guernsey, where he was heavily involved in one of the largest trust disputes in the Channel Islands that was ultimately determined by the Privy Council, before moving to the Cayman Islands in late 2016