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Andrew Butler KC
Work Department
Property & Commercial Litigation
Position
‘Incredibly impressive on the detail – commercial in his approach, with superb drafting skills. He gets on very well with clients. Robust and calls it as he sees it – he doesn’t sit on the fence but gives clear, definitive and reasoned advice.‘ – Legal 500 2022.
Andrew Butler KC practises in the areas of Property and Business & Commercial, and is Head of Chambers’ Business & Commercial Group. While he accepts instructions across the full spectrum of commercial and property work, he particularly specialises in development disputes and professional negligence matters, with company law issues also forming an increasing part of his caseload.
Andrew is a qualified mediator and a member of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the London Court of International Arbitration. He is an adjudicator on the panel of the Professional Negligence Bar Association. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 and his silk practice has gone from strength to strength, involving an appearance in the Supreme Court, and regular appearances in the Court of Appeal, as well as the Commercial and Business and Property Courts.
Andrew was short-listed for Barrister of the Year in the Lawyer Awards 2020.
Career
Called 1993 Middle Temple. Joined Tanfield Chambers (then Francis Taylor Building) 1995. Head of Business & Commercial Group. Accredited Mediator. Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Voted “Business Barrister of the Year 2015” by Lawyer Monthly Magazine. Appointed as Queen Counsel: 2018
Memberships
Property Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Education
Harrow School (where he now sits on the Board of Governors); University College, Oxford (1993 classics 2:1); City University, London (1994 CPE with commendation).
Leisure
Married with two children. Qualified rugby referee. Hobbies include all sports especially rugby, cricket and golf.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Butler KC –Tanfield Chambers ‘Andrew is excellent in all respects. His legal and tactical advice is confident and direct and he is not afraid of nailing his colours to the mast when it comes to making tough calls on strategy. His pleadings are excellent and his skills as a trial advocate go from strength to strength.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew Butler KC – Tanfield Chambers ‘Andrew gives confident and robust advice. He is clear and definitive in his advice to clients explaining very clearly where he thinks they have a good or bad case. This makes it easy for clients to make decisions as to how to proceed.’