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Mr Andrew Vinson
Position
Andrew is an experienced advocate whose practice covers the spectrum of work within the Business and Property arena. He has a particular emphasis on commercial litigation along with insolvency, property and related professional liability matters.
Andrew prides himself on his attention to detail and ability to respond to the needs of each client. He places particular emphasis on providing the best practical and commercial solutions to legal problems as well as a comprehensive legal analysis. In every case he strives to get to the heart of the issue and deal with it in a robust and commercially focused manner. He is adept at dealing with injunctive and other pre-emptive relief and all interim matters where the same are required.
He is comfortable working collaboratively as part of a wider team to achieve the desired result. He has experience of acting as a leading junior and he regularly appears against leading counsel.
Winning plaudits in the legal directories consistently since 2007, Andrew has drawn praise for his “academic brilliance” as well as giving “very good, practical advice” and being “frighteningly efficient, very clever and reading a case well.” His advocacy is described as “robust and to the point” and Andrew as a “well-prepared, calm and effective advocate who gets his point across succinctly.”
Andrew has appeared at every level of court up to and including the Court of Appeal as well as in various forms of Tribunal. He has experience of complex arbitrations and regularly attends mediations (whether single or multi-day) on the part of clients.
A member of the Attorney General’s Regional panel since 2015, Andrew has been on the A Panel since its inception and regularly deals with company, insolvency and property matters in that role. He was appointed to the Legal Services Panel of the Government of the Virgin Islands in 2024.
Career
Called 2000
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Northern Chancery Bar Association (Former Secretary)
- Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
Education
- BA (Hons) Modern History, The Queen’s College, Oxford (Class I, 1998)
- Common Professional Examination, The College of Law (Distinction, 1999)
- Bar Vocational Course, The Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent, 2000)
- Harmsworth Exhibition, Middle Temple (1999)
Personal
Andrew is widely travelled and enjoys skiing, walking and photography.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Vinson – Exchange Chambers ‘Andrew is strong in both written and oral submissions. He has the enviable ability to distil complex points of law into digestible and client friendly advice.’
Exchange Chambers is praised by one client as ‘the first port of call for work in the north of England’ due to the ‘breadth of expertise across all levels of call in commercial litigation.’ Giles Maynard-Connor KC is a notable name here with a focus on corporate fraud, and he was instructed by the defendant in a £2.5m claim surrounding allegations of breaches of sale and purchase agreements following the defendant’s partial acquirement of the claimant’s former business (Delkia Limited v Nuvia Limited). The set also houses Carly Sandbach, who has acted for clients in all levels of court up to the Court of Appeal, and her client base includes banks, multinational and small businesses, and professional services firms. She represented the defendant in the case of 199 Solar Limited v Equity Housing Group Limited, a dispute centred around a JCT construction contract and alleged misrepresentation. Andrew Vinson acts for foreign and domestic companies in high-value contractual disputes.