Overview
Andrew is a commercial litigator based in London who specialises in high stakes and crisis litigation. He regularly acts in funded group litigation and class actions for major international organisations, business-critical public law challenges, complex fund and financing disputes and international sporting disputes. His work frequently has a cross-border element or involves clients facing significant reputational or commercial risk.
Andrew works in close collaboration with lawyers from the firm’s other market-leading practice areas, including Corporate, Finance, Funds and TMT in cross-office, multidisciplinary teams.
Experience
Andrew's experience includes advising:
- Reckitt in defence of a securities group action brought under s90A of FSMA and brought in a bifurcated form as a representative action under CPR 19.8
- British Airways in defence of a consumer class action brought under EC Regulation 261 as a ‘opt-out’ representative action under CPR 19.8
- The Premier League in respect of various investigations and actions against Clubs for breaches of Premier League Rules
- The Football Association in respect of various investigations and actions against Clubs and other Participants for breaches of FA Rules
- Capita in response to its cyber incident and in defence of related group litigation brought under the UK GDPR
- Hutchison 3G on Ofcom’s consultation on competition issues arising from an auction of 5G spectrum usage rights, culminating in a judicial review of Ofcom's decision and an appeal to the Court of Appeal
- British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair on their judicial review challenge to the Department of Health’s Coronavirus quarantine rules
- A major private equity group in relation to group litigation proceedings following the nationalisation of certain mortgage lenders in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis
- UBS in relation to a number of asset financing disputes
- A major investment bank in relation to institutional scale litigation involving sovereign bond issuances
- A major UK and international accounting network in respect of various conduct and risk issues
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