Andrew Blake
Andrew specialises in company law, commercial litigation, restructuring and corporate insolvency. His time is divided between litigation and advisory work. Much of his work involves large and contentious corporate transactions, both domestically and overseas. Andrew is called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. He has been instructed in significant corporate and insolvency matters in most offshore financial centres.
Recent and current instructions include: Re Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd (acting with Jonathan Crow KC and Martin Moore KC in merger appraisal proceedings); 1Globe Capital LLC v Sinovac Biotech Ltd (Privy Council appeal with James Potts KC for the Chinese biopharmaceutical company in proceedings concerning an alleged AGM ambush and adoption of a ‘poison pill’ rights plan); SOSBEIS v Adam and others (acting on behalf of the successful NEDs with Andrew Thompson KC in the largest and most complex disqualification proceedings ever brought, arising from the collapse of Carillion).