Addleshaw Goddard

Corporate.

Andrew is a leading corporate lawyer who focusses on working closely with the entrepreneurial owners and management teams of, and investors in, high growth companies. He leads the firm’s food and drink and capital markets teams in Scotland, providing advice on fundraising, growth by acquisition, strategic relationships, contracts, joint ventures and exits. The exits include public and private company mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts and capital markets flotations. Andrew is a highly pro-active business developer with a track record of creating opportunities for clients and intermediaries. Clients comment ‘Andrew Ley is technically brilliant’ and Andrew has a ‘fantastic capacity to grasp the vitally important aspects of the deal and help parties get the very best outcome possible’.

Trained Henderson Boyd Jackson; solicitor HBJ Gateley 2000-02, associate 2002-05, partner 2005 to date; director Par Equity LLP (non-executive).

Law Society of Scotland.

Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh; University of Dundee (1997 LLB Hons; 1998 DipLP); University of Leiden, Netherlands.