Andrew Spink KC

Practice Areas

Andrew Spink KC is a highly respected advocate (38 years at the Bar, including 21 as a QC/KC). He is a recent Chair of the Commercial Bar Association and a part-time judge who has sat as a Deputy High Court Judge in the English High Court and is a Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court in Kazakhstan and an arbitrator.

Andrew’s practice covers disputes or advisory work relating to the interpretation or breach of commercial contracts and trust deeds, claims for breach of fiduciary duty, freezing injunctions and asset recovery, cross-jurisdictional issues, claims for damages and other relief in the context of pensions and other commercial trusts, banking and financial services, Fintec (especially cryptoassets) and a wide range of other commercial contracts, professional negligence claims and company law and insolvency issues. He was nominated as Legal 500 Technology, Data & Crypto Silk of the Year 2023.

Internationally, Andrew acts as counsel and arbitrator. He is a registered DIFC Court advocate and has expertise in various aspects of DIFC Law, both in terms of applying it to ongoing disputes but also leading teams of barristers providing advice to the DIFC governing body on law and regulatory reform (company law, trusts, digital assets and smart contracts, banking and finance, secured transactions) and other strategic projects.

Over the years, Andrew has been described in the legal directories as “always find[ing] the right argument, and the right way to deliver it”, “terrifyingly good in court”, “highly valued”, and “reliable, commercial and pragmatic”.