Tanfield Chambers

Property & Commercial Litigation

‘Incredibly impressive on the detail – commercial in his approach, with superb drafting skills. He gets on very well with clients. Robust and calls it as he sees it – he doesn’t sit on the fence but gives clear, definitive and reasoned advice.‘ – Legal 500 2022.

Andrew Butler KC practises in the areas of Property and Business & Commercial, and is Head of Chambers’ Business & Commercial Group. While he accepts instructions across the full spectrum of commercial and property work, he particularly specialises in development disputes and professional negligence matters, with company law issues also forming an increasing part of his caseload.

Andrew is a qualified mediator and a member of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the London Court of International Arbitration. He is an adjudicator on the panel of the Professional Negligence Bar Association. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 and his silk practice has gone from strength to strength, involving an appearance in the Supreme Court, and regular appearances in the Court of Appeal, as well as the Commercial and Business and Property Courts.

Andrew was short-listed for Barrister of the Year in the Lawyer Awards 2020.

Called 1993 Middle Temple. Joined Tanfield Chambers (then Francis Taylor Building) 1995. Head of Business & Commercial Group. Accredited Mediator. Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Voted “Business Barrister of the Year 2015” by Lawyer Monthly Magazine. Appointed as Queen Counsel: 2018

Property Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Harrow School (where he now sits on the Board of Governors); University College, Oxford (1993 classics 2:1); City University, London (1994 CPE with commendation).

Married with two children. Qualified rugby referee. Hobbies include all sports especially rugby, cricket and golf.