Fox Williams LLP

Commercial litigation

Partner

Andrew has been at the forefront of developing securities litigation in the UK since 2014, identifying potential recovery opportunities for shareholders in UK public companies and bringing claims on their behalf against 6 PLCs.

Andrew drove the launch of the UK’s first such claim, the high-profile case against Tesco PLC for a large group of institutional investors, following Tesco’s admission of a profit overstatement in late 2014 (at his previous firm, Stewarts). That case received widespread press coverage until it settled successfully in 2020, after he joined Fox Williams, where he then launched a second securities litigation claim against Tesco arising out of the same facts, for a larger group of institutional investors, which settled successfully in September 2021.

Andrew is currently leading Fox Williams’ major securities litigation claims against:

Glencore PLC: for more than 200 institutional investors, arising out of the coordinated global settlement by Glencore in 2022 of an array of investigations brought against it and its group companies by the US DoJ, the UK SFO and other agencies, which has so far seen them pay more than £1billion in penalties, for admitted bribery and corruption on a global scale. Petrofac Ltd: together with Fox Williams’ partner, Matthew Reach, Andrew spearheaded the launch of the securities litigation claim against Petrofac Limited, for more than 70 institutional investors. This case arises out of the guilty pleas entered by Petrofac to seven counts of breach of the UK’s Bribery Act in October 2021, for Petrofac’s bribery and corruption over a sustained period of many years from October 2011. Boohoo Group PLC: Andrew is acting for over 50 institutional investors in a £140 million High Court group action against Boohoo Group over misstatements and delays in its published information in one of the UK’s first shareholder claims focusing on supply chain governance and workers’ rights. Entain PLC: Andrew is acting for over 30 institutional investors in a £300 million group action against Entain following its £615 million DPA with the CPS in December 2023, alleging FSMA breaches linked to undisclosed bribery in its Turkish operations.

Andrew and the Fox Williams securities litigation team are currently building their next securities litigation claim for institutional investors, against BAT PLC. Each of these cases has a governance and stewardship focus, which is consistent with Andrew’s belief that securities litigation is a tool which investors should use when necessary to hold the companies in which they invest to account.

Andrew is dual-qualified in the UK and Australia, having worked at global law firm Baker McKenzie in Sydney before relocating to London in 2012.