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Mr Andrew de Mestre KC
Work Department
Commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on civil fraud and asset recovery; financial services and banking including CMBS and other securitisation disputes; insolvency and company law including proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986, directors’ duties, unfair prejudice petitions and other shareholder disputes.
Position
Commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on civil fraud and asset recovery; financial services and banking including CMBS and other securitisation disputes; insolvency and company law including proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986, directors’ duties, and shareholder disputes.
Recent cases include: Banca Generali v CFE (Suisse) [2022] EWHC 1450; Re Bulb Energy [2021] EWHC 3735; GEHC v Gray [2021] EWCA Civ 123 and [2020] EWCA Civ 1668; Travelport v WEX [2020] EWHC 2670 (Comm); Stanford International Bank Plc v HSBC Bank Plc [2020] EWHC 2232; Deutsche Trustee Co Ltd v Duchess VI CLO BV [2020] EWCA Civ 521; Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Plc [2019] UKSC 50, [2019] 3 WLR 997; Hosking v Apax Partners LLP [2019] 1 WLR 3347; Re Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd [2019] 1 WLR 2145; Playboy Club London v BNL SA [2018] UKSC 43; BNY Mellon Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v LBG Capital No.1 Plc [2016] UKSC 29.
Publications: Contributor to OUP’s ‘Annotated Companies Acts’; Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Finance Law.
Career
Queen Mother Scholar of Middle Temple. Called March 1998. Joined 4 Stone Buildings in October 1998. QC in 2019
Languages
French.
Memberships
Commercial Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association (Main committee; Chair pro bono sub-committee).
Education
Sherborne School, Sherborne; Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA).
Personal
Educated at Sherborne School, Dorset and Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA).
Leisure
Sports, particularly cricket (including representing the Bar at the Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew de Mestre KC – 4 Stone Buildings ‘Andrew is supremely intelligent, his written advice is clear and articulate, and he provides simple conclusions stripping out the irrelevant and expertly explaining the law.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew De Mestre KC – 4 Stone Buildings ‘Andrew is incredibly personable. He is a pleasure to work with and really engages with his instructing solicitors. He is able to think quickly on his feet and is so well prepared that it is unlikely that an issue will come out of the blue. He takes the stress out of stressful situations, being extremely calm and rational.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew de Mestre KC – 4 Stone Buildings ‘Easy to work with, very responsive and commercial, and very well informed about complex subject matters.’
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew de Mestre KC – 4 Stone Buildings ‘Extremely user-friendly and down to earth, Andrew masters financial data extremely quickly and provides relaxed and persuasive advocacy.’