Bio
Andrew is a Real Estate Disputes Partner.
With more 30 years’ experience, Andrew specialises in property-related disputes, with particular expertise advising on issues arising from commercial property sale and purchase agreements, development agreements, conditional contracts and commercial leases.
Andrew works with clients ranging from PLCs to small owner-managed businesses, private individuals, charities.
He has experience of landlord and tenant disputes including 1954 Act lease renewals, dilapidations claims, rent arrears and landlords’ remedies.
A qualified mediator, Andrew also advises on disputes relating to easements, enforceability, and removal of covenants, trespass and nuisance – supporting clients to resolve matters by engaging in mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Examples of Andrew’s work include:
- Dealing with the defence of claims advanced against clients by a purchaser of a portfolio of loans and security for a shortfall of in excess of £3.5 million based on arguments of estoppel and sale of properties at undervalue.
- Supporting a £10 million claim for a developer against a city council for repudiatory breach of a conditional contract for the sale of development land, successfully settling at mediation.
- Working for a landlord client in contested 1954 Act renewal proceedings seeking to redevelop premises against both a tenant and subtenant with implied periodic tenancies.
- Acting for a landlord against a former tenant for a dilapidations claim concerning warehouse premises in excess of £400,000, and successfully settling during protocol process.