Andrew King

Andrew King

Senior Consultant

Andrew is a senior consultant in the Dispute Resolution Department.

Litigation expertise

His practice covers a broad range of commercial cases, with a particular emphasis on disputes arising from contentious banking and insolvency matters, the sale and purchase of companies and businesses, and joint venture and shareholder disputes. He regularly acts for banks, investment managers, private equity houses and other financial institutions in a wide variety of commercial disputes, often with an overseas dimension and involving parallel proceedings abroad.

Many of his cases involve allegations of fraud or breach of fiduciary duty and/or proprietary or restitutionary claims. He also has experience of professional negligence, environmental, IT and intellectual property disputes.

Industry recognition

Chambers and Partners UK pays tribute to Andrew's "huge experience" and praises his "wide commercial litigation practice" and "solid strengths in banking and insolvency disputes".

The Legal 500 also recognise him to be "highly experienced" saying that he has "very good judgement", "handles difficult clients and difficult matters beautifully" and "has an amazing way of explaining complex concepts simply and effectively".

WORK HIGHLIGHTS

  • Acting for Hewlett Packard in relation to fraud claims amounting to US$5 billion, with parallel criminal proceedings in the US, arising out of the US$11 billion acquisition of Autonomy Corporation plc in late 2011.
  • Acting for Sebastian Holdings Inc. in its multi-billion dollar claim in the Commercial Court against Deutsche Bank arising from a series of exotic derivatives transactions.
  • Acting for joint administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration) in its settlement with Citigroup concerning custody assets valued at over US$2.5 billion.
  • Acting for the liquidators of Lehman Brothers (Luxemburg) SA on various issues arising from the termination of Securities Lending Agreements with its principal counterparties.
  • Acting for the liquidators of Peloton, a US$2 billion mortgage-backed asset-backed security (ABS) bond fund, in various contentious matters, in particular in relation to alleged mistaken payments by Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse and Barclays.
  • Acting for the directors of the Weavering Macro Fund which went into liquidation in March 2009 with a NAV shortfall of approximately US$600 million following discovery of a series of suspect derivatives trades.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

'Vastly experienced and cuts straight to the chase. A real master at handling difficult cases.'
The Legal 500 UK 2022
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