Expertise

Andrew is a Partner in the real estate division, specialising in real estate disputes.
He has extensive experience of contentious real estate matters including:

• Joint venture and development disputes
• Forfeiture and possession claims (including peaceable re-entry)
• Lease renewals
• Claims concerning lease covenants (including alienation and use cases)
• Solicitors' and surveyors' professional negligence claims
• Disrepair and dilapidations claims
• Disputes concerning the exercise of break clauses and options
• Property related contractual claims
• Claims arising from the enforcement of security
• Landlords' remedies against defaulting tenants

Case highlights include:

• A substantial, multi-party, dilapidations claim which tests the application of the dilapidations pre-action protocol to such cases
• A substantial solicitors' professional negligence claim
• The English aspects of a long-running Singapore trust dispute
• A number of development agreement disputes
• Cases involving restitutionary claims

Andrew joined Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard) in 2002 and has been described in legal directories as "a force to be reckoned with".