Andrew Harris > Howes Percival LLP > Milton Keynes, England > Lawyer Profile

Howes Percival LLP
FIRST FLOOR, BELL HOUSE, SEEBECK PLACE
KNOWLHILL
MILTON KEYNES
MK5 8FR
England

Work Department

Corporate, Commercial and Banking

Position

Andy is a Consultant in the Milton Keynes Corporate Team, having re-joined the firm in 2020 after 12 years as a partner at international law firm Dentons. He has deep experience in transactional M&A, private equity, and reorganisations for businesses across a variety of sectors, and several client relationships that go back 10-20 years.

Ranked in Legal 500 2025’s “Hall of Fame”, he also “has a great depth of experience in M & A transactions and private equity investments and a client endorses him as “a very pragmatic individual who gets to the point and ensures commercial solutions are reached without elongated legal negotiations” (Chambers 2019).

Andy was for 5 years the Group Legal Director with a fully-listed public company manufacturer with an international footprint, leading the group’s acquisition and disposal programmes. This broadened his experience and taught him valuable lessons in how to look at things practically from the client’s perspective, and also to consider issues in the context of the wider business.

Andy has been a trustee of local charity, MK SNAP, which helps adults with learning difficulties to live as independently as possible, since 2013.

Career

  • 2024 – present: Consultant, Howes Percival
  • 2020-2024: Partner, Howes Percival
  • 2013 – present: Trustee of MK SNAP
  • 2008-2020: Partner and Head of Corporate (Milton Keynes), (and 2014-19 Managing Partner of the Milton Keynes Office), Dentons
  • 1999-2008: Partner, Howes Percival
  • 1995-1999: Company Secretary (Group Legal Director 1999), Powerscreen International PLC
  • 1988-1995: Solicitor (1988-92), Associate (1992-3), Senior Associate (1993-5), Eversheds (Birmingham)
  • 1986-1988: Articled Clerk, Eversheds Birmingham
  • 1985-6: Guildford College of Law
  • 1982-5: University of Birmingham

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx

(Hall of Fame)

Andrew HarrisHowes Percival LLP

Howes Percival LLP‘s Milton Keynes-based corporate, commercial and banking team routinely advises on a broad range of matters including acquisitions, disposals and private equity transactions. The group remains known in the marketplace for its expertise regarding work arising out of the motor retail automotive sector. Tom Redman now heads the practice and comes highly recommended for his ‘approachability and readiness’. Former practice head Andrew Harris remains a key member of the team, lending his demonstrable expertise to M&A, private equity transactions and corporate reorganisations. Technology and automotive expert Chris White is an important point of contact on the commercial side of the practice.