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Andrew Green KC KC
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial law and, particularly, insurance and reinsurance, financial services, media and entertainment, civil fraud and sports law. Full professional career details can be found at www.blackstonechambers.com.
Career
Qualified 1988, Inner Temple; QC 2010.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Green KC – Blackstone Chambers ‘Amazing advocate and good client handling skills notwithstanding court pressures.’
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Andrew Green KC – Blackstone Chambers ‘You want him on your side in a fight, but also a sophisticated operator in this field who gives subtle advice and skilful representation to large banking and financial services clients. He knows the industry inside out and his advice is always realistic and considered, which makes banks so keen to use him for his wisdom and strategic antennae. A first class banking lawyer.’
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Andrew Green KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘Andrew is a formidable KC. He is very clever, a great tactician, user friendly and, above all, a superb advocate particularly skilled at cross-examination. If ever there was a Silk for a difficult case, then Andrew is that person.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Andrew Green KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘Andrew is a wonderful barrister and a star. He is a fearsome cross-examiner with an incisive and thoughtful style, and his cross-examinations are a thing of beauty.’
With a ‘large number of excellent KCs and juniors’, Blackstone Chambers tackles a broad range of commercial litigation, including financial services, fraud, and City regulation disputes. Andrew Scott KC notably represented the claimant in the high-value Skatteforvaltningen v Solo Capital Partners LLP and others case, where the Danish authority seeks to recover money – which it alleges to be the proceeds of a large cum-ex fraud – from a Dubai-based, British-led hedge fund. In Upham v HSBC, Andrew Green KC acted for the defendant in a £1.3 billion fraud claim where the High Court ruled that HSBC did not deceive hundreds of investors into financing a Disney movie tax relief scheme.
London Bar > Financial services and fintech regulation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Andrew Green KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘Andrew has good judgement, but really comes into his own in the courtroom. He is a forensic cross-examiner.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Andrew Green KC – Blackstone Chambers ‘A consummate trial advocate, insightful and fiendishly clever.’