Andrew Wanambwa

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution

Andrew is a partner in the Dispute Resolution team. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution.

Andrew has extensive experience advising major corporate clients, financial institutions and high net worth individuals and has acted for clients in a number of industries, including telecoms, accountancy, finance, insurance, mining, pharmaceuticals and transport.

Andrew has advised on several large-scale disputes before the English High Court, including:

- Advising a multinational telecoms company in a £100m+ claim involving breach of fiduciary duty;

- Advising an international bank on a £100m+ professional liability claim against its former legal advisers;

- Advising a large corporate entity on a high value application for the rectification of its pension trust deed.

In addition to his London-based work Andrew has acted in Litigation and arbitral matters involving emerging markets such as Zimbabwe and Pakistan. While in Hong Kong he defended a $1.5 billion professional indemnity claim against one of the Big 4 accountancy firms. In the British Virgin Islands he advised on, among other matters, a $600 million economic tort claim involving Russian parties, shareholder disputes and he obtained freezing injunctions in support of foreign and arbitral proceedings.