Called to the Bar: 2023

New South Wales: Barrister

State of New York: Attorney at Law

US Federal Courts: US Supreme Court

US Federal Courts: US Court of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits

US Federal Courts: US District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

England & Wales: Solicitor

Scotland: Solicitor

Level 6
169 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000

Appellate
Arbitration
Banking & Finance
Bankruptcy
Class Actions
Commercial & Contracts
Competition & Consumer Law
Conflict of Laws
Construction
Insurance
Insolvency
Intellectual Property
Intentional Torts
Partnership & Joint Ventures
Privacy Law
Private International Law
Professional Negligence
Real Property
Trusts

LL.B. (Hons. 1st Class), University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Dip. L.P., Glasgow Graduate School of Law, Scotland

LL.M., Harvard Law School

Andrew was called to the New South Wales bar in 2023.

In addition to being admitted as a barrister in New South Wales, Andrew is also admitted as an attorney in New York and as a solicitor in England & Wales and Scotland. He graduated first in his class from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland (LL.B. (Hons. 1st Class)) and holds a LL.M. from Harvard Law School where he was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Scholar (the UK equivalent of a Rhodes Scholar).

Prior to relocating to Australia, Andrew practiced for fifteen years in the litigation department of the international law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He was elected to partnership in 2007, becoming one of the firm’s youngest partners. While at Kirkland, Andrew handled a wide variety of trial and appellate matters including commercial contract disputes, financial services litigations and investigations, class actions, and insolvency proceedings. His clients included numerous Fortune 500 companies such as Morgan Stanley, Verizon, AOL, and News Corp. He also had an active pro bono practice, including representing a Texas death row inmate in his post-conviction litigation, for which he was individually awarded a Thurgood Marshall Award for Death Penalty Representation by the New York Bar Association and his team was awarded the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project Exceptional Service Award.

While at Kirkland, Andrew appeared before courts and arbitration panels across the United States including in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Virginia. He has also practiced before numerous appellate courts, including the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits, the Delaware Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Andrew has a particular interest in technology, data security and privacy, accounting, and cross‑border litigation. His cross-border matters include disputes arising in Australia, England & Wales, the European Union, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Argentina, and Germany.

In addition to his practice, Andrew has a keen interest in teaching. He taught trial advocacy for ten years while at Kirkland and was previously an instructor and examiner in tort and international private law at the University of Strathclyde. He has published articles on medical ethics and tort and given presentations on international competition law, securities litigation, electronic discovery, and death penalty representation. Between 2006 and 2007, Andrew was the American Bar Association’s International Civil Litigation Sub-Committee Chair.