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Andrew Hunter KC
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial law (including insurance/reinsurance; financial services; civil fraud; arbitration and entertainment/sports); public law. Full professional career details can be found at www.blackstonechambers.com.
Career
Qualified 1993, Middle Temple; QC 2012.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Hunter KC –Blackstone Chambers
‘Andrew has a great intellect, is a total team player, immensely hardworking and hard as nails.’
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Hunter KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘Andrew is a brilliant advocate – great to work with, highly approachable and he enjoys debate around strategy and legal issues. He is very open to ideas and has excellent strategic sense and a strong feel for the tribunal’s direction. His advocacy is to the point, his cross-examination is invariably polite but highly effective and he is unflappable.’
London Bar > Sport
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Andrew Hunter KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘A very bright, hardworking lawyer with enormous energy and capacity to process and analyse very complex facts and data at speed.‘
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1‘A go-to set for complex fraud matters‘, Blackstone Chambers is able to leverage the chambers’ associated strengths in commercial litigation and regulatory expertise, particularly in the financial services sector. Robert Anderson KC and Andrew Hunter KC co-lead the representation of Ukraine’s PrivatBank, which alleges a $2bn fraud by its former owners, the trial adjourned owing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine making a fair trial impracticable. Andrew Green KC is currently defending HSBC against a £1bn-plus Commercial Court claim arising from an alleged fraudulent conspiracy involving a failed film finance scheme. Over in the junior ranks, Leona Powell acted as key junior counsel for the defendants in HMRC v Delancey Real Estate & Ors, a high-stakes tax dispute concerning complex misrepresentation allegations; and Timothy Lau represents a global steel producer as claimant in a $1.5bn dispute that involves conspiracy to evade payment of a foreign arbitral award. Recent silk-level growth for the set includes the 2023 elevation of Adam Baradon KC.
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew Hunter KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘Andrew is incredibly impressive.’