• Commercial
• Equity
• Property
• Intellectual property
• Corporations law
• Banking
• Trade practices and competition
• Insolvency
• Insurance
• Professional negligence
• Employment and industrial law
• Wills and probate

Called to the Bar in 2004, Andrew practises across a range of areas, with a particular focus on commercial litigation, equity, corporations, trade practices and real property. He also acts in professional negligence, banking and insolvency, employment, intellectual property, insurance and wills and probate matters.

Andrew previously worked as a solicitor at Freehills in Sydney (1998 to May 2003) and before that was the Research Officer for the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1997).

Andrew’s recent work as counsel or junior counsel has included:

• Acting for Willoughby City Council, defending a claim for specific performance brought by TCN Nine Pty Ltd in relation to the Channel Nine site in Artarmon

• Acting for the Commonwealth of Australia as junior counsel, defending a $900m claim brought by OPEL (a joint venture between Optus Networks and Elders) concerning the rollout of a broadband network to rural Australia

• Acting for the National Bank of Australia Limited on various banking and equity matters

• Supreme Court proceedings involving claims arising out of a licence to commercialise a sustainable aquaponic food production system (Green Camel Pty Ltd v Urban Ecological Systems Ltd)

• Various Supreme Court proceedings for the enforcement of equitable mortgages (Goldstein v Shyzi Pty Ltd; also Ryan Wealth Holdings Pty Ltd v L & V Tomkins Pty Ltd)

• Acting for Willoughby City Council (as trustee of Crown land) on an application for judicial advice (Application of Willoughby City Council (as manager of the Talus Reserve Trust)

• Professional negligence proceedings in the Supreme Court against a firm of auditors

• Professional negligence proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia (including a substantive application to have the proceedings dismissed as an abuse of process)

• A long-running inquiry as to damages in the Supreme Court following the unlawful termination of a 103 year lease to build private hospital and car park adjacent to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Macquarie International Health Clinic Pty Ltd v Sydney Local Health District)

• In the Court of Appeal, appearing before the Full Court in connection with disputed rights of standing to bring an appeal (Mateljan v HTT Huntley Heritage Pty Ltd)

• Acting for a trustee company in commercial litigation in the Federal Court, and in a parallel application to the Supreme Court for judicial advice (Jax Franchising Systems Pty Ltd as Trustee for the JF Unit Trust)

• Applications for freezing orders and injunctions in the Supreme Court

Other matters in which Andrew has acted as counsel or junior counsel include:

• Supreme Court proceedings brought by investors in the collapsed Trio/Astarra managed investment group

• Shareholder oppression suits in the Supreme Court

• Partnership disputes in the Supreme Court

• Proprietary estoppel cases in the Supreme Court

• Federal Court proceeding concerning alleged infringements of patent and copyright in the energy devices sector

• Supreme Court proceedings for the removal of trustee companies for breach of trust

• Federal Court proceeding involving alleged misuse of confidential information and breaches of restraints of trade

• New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings concerning assessment of land tax

• High Court special leave application proceedings concerning a restraint of trade

• The successful defence of large-scale commercial lease proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales

• Appearing at an inquiry as to damages in the Federal Court for breach of patent in the healthcare area

• Acting in various professional negligence proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales

• Advising and appearing as junior counsel in a coronial inquest into a fatal explosion at a winery in the Hunter Valley

• A Federal Court proceeding brought as a test case by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission concerning the remuneration of company administrators

• New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings involving issues of unconscionability and economic duress

• New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings and High Court special leave proceedings in relation to poker machine entitlements issued under the Gaming Machines Act 2001 (NSW)

• Supreme Court proceedings for leave to bring derivative proceedings under the Corporations Act and derivative proceedings brought pursuant to leave

• Wills and probate matters

• Partnership dispute in the Federal Court involving allegations of deceit, conspiracy, breach of trust and misappropriation of intellectual property

• Supreme Court proceedings concerning a collapsed solicitors' mortgage investment scheme