Andrew Wass > Withers LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Withers LLP
20 Old Bailey
LONDON
EC4M 7AN
England

Living Wage

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Work Department

Commercial litigation.

Position

Andrew is a commercial litigator, focusing on financial services disputes.

After university, Andrew pursued a career outside the law, working in a variety of industries including time as an inter-dealer broker in the foreign exchange market.  He has considerable experience in contentious financial services and has unique insight into the financial markets and their specialist products.

Andrew’s other contentious experience includes professional negligence claims, sport, civil fraud and judicial review. He is also a qualified CEDR Mediator.

Career

Called to the Bar 1986; worked in various industries, including financial markets, television post-production and residential property development 1987-2002; also ran a private investment portfolio; qualified as a solicitor 2004; partner Withers 2010 to date.

Memberships

Financial Services Lawyers Association; Middle Temple; Bar Council; and Law Society.

Education

Kings College School, Wimbledon; University of Nottingham; City University; Inns of Court School of Law; Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Leisure

Shooting, golf, cycling, football, rugby, theatre, reading.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market

A ‘fantastic firm with quality from top to bottom’, Withers LLP is ‘very well placed to deal with commercial disputes’. The sizeable practice represents family offices, HNW individuals and large corporate entities in multi-jurisdictional disputes, including asset recovery and enforcement matters, and contract, company and financial services disputes. The team is also highly experienced in disputes involving fraud, white-collar crime, professional negligence, insurance, and insolvency. It is additionally experienced in challenging decisions through judicial review claims. Company disputes specialist Peter Wood is global dispute resolution CEO and the ‘excellent’ Stephen Ross is civil fraud head. Roberto Moruzzi is an expert in domestic and international contractual disputes, mis-selling claims, fraud and asset tracing and Andrew Wass is also experienced in financial mis-selling work. The practice further showcases Eleni Polycarpou, who acts in commercial litigation claims alongside her commercial arbitration work, commercial disputes practitioner Sinead Harris, and financial services, banking and corporate litigation expert Henry Farris. Lesley Timms is experienced in contractual and shareholder disputes, and fraud and asset recovery matters. ‘Great strategistTatiana Menshenina is a specialist in disputes involving Russia, Ukraine and the wider CIS region. Daniel GoreJoshua Swift and Ruzin Dagli are also experienced litigators.