Clerks Details
- Clerk Name: Mark Heath
- Clerk Telephone: 0117 928 1520
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
- Clerk Name: Joe Townsend
- Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
- Clerk Name: Dave Fielder
- Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
Commercial
Andrew is an experienced commercial and chancery practitioner. His expertise spans business-to-business contractual disputes, equitable remedies, partnership disputes, insolvency, professional negligence, and consumer law.
Core Specialist Areas:
Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Andrew has a wealth of experience in handling insolvency matters, including acting for liquidators, validating transactions pre-bankruptcy orders, and resisting injunctions related to winding up petitions.
Partnership Disputes: Often involving real property assets, which are referred to arbitration under partnership agreements.
Commercial Disputes: Involving complex multi-jurisdictional proceedings, misrepresentation, and estoppel defences.
Professional Negligence: Extending to claims against solicitors, pre-purchase building surveys, and successful representation of architects in court trials.
Equitable Remedies: With a strong background in equitable remedies, Andrew advises on unconscionable transactions, fraud, non est factum, and cases involving the court's equitable jurisdiction.
Recent and ongoing Cases:
- Acting a claim for a substantial deferred remuneration and contractual interest. The dispute arises from a broader investment in innovative culinary solutions distributed internationally, with the case centering on the rescission of a previous agreement and the conditionality of payment on further funding.
- Acting for a liquidator in the recovery of payments made post-winding up petition, managing validation order applications and other claims for void payments.
- Advised and represented a businessman in a validation order concerning a home transaction before a bankruptcy order.
- Successfully resisted an injunction to restrain the presentation of a winding up petition related to unpaid invoices under a substantial construction contract.
- Represented a dentist in bankruptcy proceedings, rescinding the bankruptcy order after securing commercial funding.
- Handled various winding up petitions, bankruptcy petitions, and applications to set aside statutory demands.
- Handled a partnership dispute involving approximately £1.5 million in real property assets referred to arbitration.
- Advised on unconscionable transactions and other equitable remedies, including property transfers at undervalue.
- Represented a professional theatre company in a substantial loss of profit claim arising from a breach of contract.
- Professional Negligence:
- Claimed damages against a solicitors' firm for negligent advice on the release of a no-build covenant.
- Successfully represented an architect in a county court trial for alleged faulty work.
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Recommendations ‘Andrew is very hands-on and helpful, happy to offer advice throughout a case on an ad hoc basis to assist with case progression. He is very well-prepared, including in the mediation context. He is very good at managing a client, and his negotiation skills are excellent.’
Legal 500 2024/Chancery, Probate and Tax/South Eastern Circuit/Leading Juniors
“a preferred counsel of mine in respect of property related disputes.”
Mark Taylor, Partner, Cunningtons LLP
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