Andrew’s broad practice spans commercial and commercial chancery litigation, arbitration and advisory work. He has extensive experience of high-value and complex business disputes, with an emphasis on banking/financial services work, heavy contractual claims, civil fraud and company/insolvency matters. He maintains a specialist interest in trusts and other traditional Chancery areas and is a contributor to Snell’s Equity. Applications for freezing injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal orders, anti-suit injunctions and other interim relief form a mainstay of his practice, both before the English courts and in leading offshore jurisdictions.
Current and recent cases include: Convoy Collateral v Broad Idea [2022] 2 WLR 703 (Privy Council); Rowland v Stanford [2022] EWHC 2135 (Ch), [2022] EWHC 1713 (Ch), [2022] EWHC 1436 (Ch), [2021] EWHC 1682 (Ch), [2021] EWHC 988 (Ch), [2021] EWHC 252 (Ch); Palmali Shipping v Litasco [2021] EWHC 1161 (Comm); Kea Investments v Watson [2022] 4 WLR 14, [2020] EWHC 2796 (Ch), [2020] EWHC 2599 (Ch); Evison v Finvision [2019] EWHC 3057 (Comm); Renova v Emmerson (Privy Council, Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court); for professional trustees in a multi-party claim concerning a c.£65m trust for the successful respondent in a c.£150 million LCIA arbitration arising under a price review clause.
University of Sydney (BSc (Adv) (Hons) LLB (Hons)); Exeter College, Oxford (BCL)
London Bar
Andrew McLeod – One Essex Court ‘Andrew is fiercely intelligent but down to earth and approachable. He is particularly skilled at distilling complicated multi-jurisdictional issues into the simple and understandable in both oral and written form.’
The English Bar Offshore
Andrew McLeod – One Essex Court 'Andrew is highly articulate and engaging and has a masterly grasp of the law.'