Andrew Preston

Practice Areas

Bunkers/Green Fuels

Commercial Litigation and ADR

Dry Shipping

Career

Andrew acts for a wide range of international banks, corporates and trade houses on all types of commercial litigation disputes. Andrew specialises in general commercial litigation, shipping and trading disputes. Over twenty-five years, he has acted for a large number of corporates, oil majors, shipowners, insurers, charterers, operators, suppliers and cargo interests and their insurers both nationally and internationally. He has litigated in every level of Court up to the Supreme Court.

Throughout his career he has applied his skills to find commercial solutions for clients. Andrew has been rated by the directories as one of the leading shipping lawyers for many years acting for a wide range of shipowners, trading houses, charterers and their insurers. One client in the Directories said "Probably the best lawyer for head on the block advice. Andrew Preston exercises sound judgment as a gift simplifying even the most complex problems".

Andrew is recognised as one of the leading lawyers in the world at liabilities arising out of bunker/fuel supply disputes. He has acted on hundreds of off spec bunker claims dealing with all seismic global events including Houston problems, recent Singapore issues, IMO 2020 and ARA problems.

Andrew sits as an LCIA Arbitrator and is an author of a number of various chapters of leading textbooks.