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Andrew Feld
Work Department
Banking and finance; Commercial law; Civil fraud; Shipping; Arbitration and mediation; EU and competition law; Insolvency and company law; Private international law
Position
Andrew has an eclectic practice encompassing the full spectrum of commercial litigation, with particular specialisms in private international law, civil fraud, and shipping international trade. His recent caseload covers an unusually broad range of practice areas – from marine insurance to privacy injunctions – including energy and natural resources, banking and finance, tech and IP, and insolvency and restructuring.
Andrew has appeared recently in the large-scale litigation in Deutsche Bank v Sebastian Holdings and Sabbagh v Khoury. He also has extensive experience of cases involving jurisdictional and conflicts of laws issues, including anti-suit injunctions, cross-border insolvency cases, and disputes involving the interaction between courts and arbitral tribunals.
Before coming to the Bar, Andrew worked for several years as a competition and regulatory economist. He enjoys bringing his fluency with numerical data and analysis to his commercial cases.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Shipping
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew Feld – Twenty Essex ‘Andrew is great to have on your team; his technical knowledge in this area is excellent, and he is able to explain complex concepts in a client-friendly way.’
Praised for its ‘extremely strong bench strength in the shipping space’, Twenty Essex‘s members are routinely instructed in complex shipping cases at all levels of the English court system as well as internationally. In UK P&I Club v Venezuela, the Court of Appeal in London blocked a claim by the Venezuelan regime, owing to state immunity, in a case after a collision between a navy patrol vessel and a cruise liner; David Lewis KC led Alexander Thompson for the shipowners. A number of the set’s barristers were involved in Frangou v Frangos, which dealt with a contractual dispute between members of a Greek shipping family concerning costs and losses arising out of the operation of a commercial vessel; Oliver Caplin KC led Patrick Dunn-Walsh on the defendant side, while Timothy Hill KC led Andrew Feld for the claimant. Elsewhere, the MSC Flaminia has continued to occupy courts, with Julian Kenny KC leading Michal Hain on behalf of MSC in limitation proceedings in the Court of Appeal, which upheld that charterers cannot limit an owner’s claim for its own losses.
London Bar > Crypto and blockchain assets
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Twenty Essex handles a wide variety of cases involving cryptoassets and the blockchain. Lawrence Akka KC is noted for his ‘deep technical understanding of blockchain technology,’ while Andrew Feld, Sam Goodman and Matthew McGhee are key names from the set at junior level.
London Bar > Commodities
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Feld – Twenty Essex ‘Andrew’s analytical skills are excellent. He is a pleasure to work with.’
London Bar > Energy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew Feld – Twenty Essex ‘Extremely bright and capable, but also very approachable, Andrew always gives clear and decisive advice and understands client dynamics well.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Andrew Feld – Twenty Essex ‘A very commercial, thorough, and well-prepared advocate who is very bright and technically sound.’