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Andrew Blau

A Partner in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice, Andrew Blau focuses his practice on compensation and benefit-related issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures and other corporate transactions. He has extensive experience in structuring employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections, and management participation in buyouts and new ventures. His experience includes domestic and international M&A across a variety of sectors. Andrew also advises on the applicability of securities and tax laws to executives and employers, disclosure obligations in respect of employee benefits and executive compensation arrangements, corporate governance issues and general employment-related matters.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Andrew Bloomer

Andrew Bloomer is a litigation partner with extensive experience in a variety of complex litigation matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts. His areas of practice include class actions, multidistrict litigation, and general commercial and product liability litigation, trial work, appeals, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Andrew has represented clients in complex consumer class actions, products liability, commercial contracts, environmental, franchise, distributorship, breach of contract, fraud, RICO, ERISA, financial technology, and construction matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Andrew Bochner

Managing Partner

Bochner PLLC

Andrew Bonnes

Partner Co-Chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Practice

WilmerHale

Andrew Bourne

Andrew Bourne has helped clients obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance proceeds and other recoveries. He represents corporate and individual policyholders in federal and state courts and litigates significant and cutting-edge cases involving a wide range of insurance contracts, including cases that involve commercial general liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, property and business interruption, professional liability, and multimedia errors and omissions policies, as well as fidelity bonds. Advocating for corporate and individual policyholders in federal and state courts across the country, Andrew draws on nearly two decades of insurance industry-related legal experience. With his deep knowledge of various jurisdictions, he considers the circumstances of each case and brings lawsuits in the venues that are most advantageous. On the front end, Andrew helps clients avoid pitfalls by thoroughly analyzing their policies to ensure they contain complete information. He carefully identifies any potential traps such as intentionally buried language that would eventually allow an insurance company to avoid paying on claims. Andrew has successfully litigated and tried cases and argued appeals in numerous courts and arbitral forums. For example, Andrew secured a complete victory for a policyholder in a multimillion-dollar claim under a cargo insurance policy, which included coverage for certain attorneys’ fees under the policy’s “Sue and Labor” provision, which was unanimously affirmed by an appellate court. In another groundbreaking case, Andrew secured a significant appellate decision for New York policyholders, clarifying – for the first time – the minimal standard needed to plead a bad faith claim and confirming that New York recognizes that a policyholder may assert a claim for damages, including attorneys’ fees, arising from an insurance company’s bad faith claims handling. Andrew also recently secured a California federal district court decision finding that policyholder 180 Life Sciences Corp. is entitled to advancement of defense costs for potentially covered claims under a D&O policy. Andrew has been recognized as an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and a New York Metro Super Lawyer. He is an associate editor of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal and previously served on the New York City Bar Association’s Insurance Committee.

Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna

Andrew Bowden-Brown

Andrew is a Partner specialising in banking and finance litigation, asset based lending and alternative finance lending, cryptocurrency asset recovery and commercial litigation. Andrew regularly advises banks and other financial institutions on security and enforcement issues arising out of facility and / or security documentation. These issues range from complex multi-jurisdictional fraud claims to simple debt recovery matters, loss mitigation, contentious and non-contentious insolvency and asset recovery and tracing claims. In addition, Andrew has extensive experience of dealing with complex commercial and crypto asset recovery litigation. He works alongside leading asset recovery experts to ensure quick, commercial and pragmatic steps are taken to assist victims recover their misappropriated assets. Andrew is a member of the Shoosmiths' crypto working group. Andrew's expertise includes: advising on actions against clients and former clients of asset based lenders, banks and other financial institutions, including guarantors, warrantors and indemnifiers advising banks and other financial institutions on claims against them by current or former clients and any consequent reports to their respective regulatory bodies. In particular, Andrew has advised banks subject to numerous high-value claims for the alleged mis-selling of various financial products, including invoice finance, asset based lending, secured and unsecured finance, structured collars, swaps, simple collars and cap products advising numerous individuals and institutions on civil and criminal recovery options following theft of their crypto / virtual / NFT assets working alongside insolvency practitioners advising on fraud investigations, administrations, liquidations and provisional liquidations, actions against bankrupts, directors and third parties and obtaining relief under the Insolvency Act, such as wrongful trading, transactions at undervalue, preference and misfeasance advising on bespoke facility and security documentation in connection with prospective clients (including assisting credit committees), reviewing and amending intercreditor documents, undertaking security reviews and re-negotiating / taking new security during the course of a facility and assisting the business to create and maintain an “exit plan” for distressed or defaulting businesses advising on professional negligence claims against solicitors, accountants and other professional advisers Specialist areas include: asset based lending, invoice finance, fraud, commercial litigation, trade finance, supply chain finance, construction, insolvency and restructuring, director disqualification, debt recovery, cryptocurrency & digital asset recovery and professional negligence

Shoosmiths LLP

Andrew Bowler

Andy is joint head of patent litigation at Bristows. Andy's advice covers the full range of intellectual property rights, with a particular emphasis on patents, trade marks, registered designs and trade secrets. Andy has experience in representing high profile clients in IP disputes, including complex mechanical and FMCG products, pharmaceuticals, mobile phones, automotives, electronics and medical devices. He has conducted several successful mediations of IP disputes and regularly provides freedom to operate and validity opinions. Frequently, he is asked by clients to coordinate cross-border litigation. He also has experience of making discovery applications to UK courts pursuant to letters of request/letters rogatory issued by foreign courts. Andy's cases include the Unwired Planet/Conversant case in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court on SEP/FRAND licensing [2020] UKSC 37 on behalf of ZTE. Other clients include Siemens, Samsung, Kennametal and Heineken. Andy is frequently asked to comment and lecture on IP issues and is a regular speaker at international conferences on strategic considerations for European and international patent litigation. He regularly provides comments to the national press on intellectual property issues. He is on the Lexis Nexis IP & IT Editorial Board. Recent cases include: Unwired Planet v Samsung (acting for Samsung). Heineken v Anheuser–Busch (acting for Heineken). Wobben v Siemens (acting for Siemens, also on appeal). Sandvik v Kennametal (acting for Kennametal). Conversant v ZTE (acting for ZTE in patent trials concerning standard essential patents, anti-suit injunction hearing, and hearings up to the Supreme Court on jurisdiction issues concerning FRAND licensing). Jushi v OCV (acting for Jushi in leading Court of Appeal case relating to overlapping ranges). Alcon Pharmaceuticals v Pharmathen (acting for Alcon in preliminary injunction proceedings). Allergan v Ipsen (acting for Ipsen in case involving Swiss-type and EPC 2000 claims). BAE v Thales (acting for Thales). Kenilworth v Blackberry and Microsoft (acting for Kenilworth). Siemens v Seagate (acting for Siemens in Northern Irish proceedings).

Bristows LLP

Andrew Boyce

Andrew is a partner in the corporate and finance team and is recognised both locally and internationally for investment and finance transactions across all entity types. Andrew has specialist experience in the structuring and establishment of open and closed-ended investment funds and the credit and structured finance products related to them. In particular he has built an enviable reputation in his core expertise of private equity fund formation having advised a range of global investment houses as well as new managers on fund establishment, investment structuring, asset acquisitions and disposals and regulatory issues. Andrew's banking and finance expertise compliments his investment funds core practice and covers a range of credit types including capital call facilities, leveraged financing and asset finance. He has acted for global banking institutions and alternative credit providers as well as institutional borrowers. Andrew is instructed by leading UK, European and international law firms and financial institutions, and is recognised by global legal directories and publications. As a qualified British Virgin Islands lawyer Andrew also advises on the above in relation to British Virgin Islands law from his base in Guernsey.

Carey Olsen

Andrew Brady

Associate

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Andrew Brammer

Andrew Brammer joined Weightmans in April 2019, to become the Lead lawyer in the Midlands Regulatory Team. Since qualifying in 1996, he has developed an enviable reputation as a specialist Regulatory lawyer.Working for national and international organisations across multiple sectors, Andrew’s practice focuses on protecting businesses and key decision makers during criminal investigations and prosecutions. He has defended hundreds of clients against regulatory bodies like the Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency and Local Authority Trading Standards teams. His polished but practical style enables him to advise at all levels and he has been described as "highly experienced and impressively robust" and is known for his "tactical astuteness" and "excellent attention to detail".Drawing on his knowledge and experience, clients regularly call upon Andrew to offer in-house training and compliance management support.Andrew’s expertise in contentious health and safety and environmental law has been recognised by legal directories for over a decade and he is cited as being a "Leading Individual" by the Legal 500 for his health and safety work.

Weightmans LLP

Andrew Bratt

Partner National Practice Group Leader – Employment, Labour & Equalities

Gowling WLG

Andrew Breakwell

Partner

Hall Brown Family Law

Andrew Brennan

Andrew heads Shoosmiths’ 20 strong national IP team. He is recognised as a leading intellectual property lawyer who "knows his IP” and “provides solid, targeted and fast advice”. Clients find him approachable, pragmatic, agile and very user-friendly. Andrew’s practice covers all areas of intellectual property law, with a particular focus on the technology, engineering and consumer brand sectors. He works for global tech companies and household brands through to pioneering SME’s and disruptive start-ups. Passionate about innovation, Andrew is recognised for his excellence in handling complex disputes with a technical element involving patents, confidential information and software. He also helps technology clients in relation to their strategic R&D programmes and specialised IP commercialisation arrangements. Andrew's experience covers a range of technologies, including oil and gas well perforation, various waste to energy processes, robotics, photonic printing, supercontinuum lasers, friction stir welding, graphene filtration, sealed grafts, stroke detection equipment, autonomous vehicles, software and many more. In the consumer brand space, Andrew has handled countless trade mark and design disputes and licensing deals on behalf of well-known and up and coming brands. Recent work examples include: conducting multi-jurisdictional patent dispute regarding reactive shaped charges on behalf of global designer and manufacturer of gas and oil well perforating equipment; advising on patent and know-how licence dispute between two global engineering companies; handling international patent licensing programme on behalf of global photonic printing company; advising on complex pre-clinical and clinical milestone co-development and patent licensing agreement on behalf of US life sciences company; working as part of an international team to help one of the world’s largest vodka manufacturers enforce and protect a key trade mark; and advising numerous well known cycle brands in relation to brand protection, enforcement and licensing matters.

Shoosmiths LLP

Andrew Brennan

Andrew heads Shoosmiths’ 20 strong national IP team. He is recognised as a leading intellectual property lawyer who "knows his IP” and “provides solid, targeted and fast advice”. Clients find him approachable, pragmatic, agile and very user-friendly. Andrew’s practice covers all areas of intellectual property law, with a particular focus on the technology, engineering and consumer brand sectors. He works for global tech companies and household brands through to pioneering SME’s and disruptive start-ups. Passionate about innovation, Andrew is recognised for his excellence in handling complex disputes with a technical element involving patents, confidential information and software. He also helps technology clients in relation to their strategic R&D programmes and specialised IP commercialisation arrangements. Andrew's experience covers a range of technologies, including oil and gas well perforation, various waste to energy processes, robotics, photonic printing, supercontinuum lasers, friction stir welding, graphene filtration, sealed grafts, stroke detection equipment, autonomous vehicles, software and many more. In the consumer brand space, Andrew has handled countless trade mark and design disputes and licensing deals on behalf of well-known and up and coming brands. Recent work examples include: conducting multi-jurisdictional patent dispute regarding reactive shaped charges on behalf of global designer and manufacturer of gas and oil well perforating equipment; advising on patent and know-how licence dispute between two global engineering companies; handling international patent licensing programme on behalf of global photonic printing company; advising on complex pre-clinical and clinical milestone co-development and patent licensing agreement on behalf of US life sciences company; working as part of an international team to help one of the world’s largest vodka manufacturers enforce and protect a key trade mark; and advising numerous well known cycle brands in relation to brand protection, enforcement and licensing matters.

Shoosmiths LLP

Andrew Brereton

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Andrew Bretherton

Andrew is an experienced UK and US qualified corporate and commercial lawyer who advises on UK and international capital markets, M&A, private equity and venture capital investments / exits. Andrew also acts as legal counsel for entrepreneurs, investors and businesses in relation to strategy, risk, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and constitutional issues. Andrew has advised clients across a range of sectors including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, hotels, hospitality and leisure, retail, technology and telecoms.

Keystone Law

Andrew Brookes

Partner handles all types of property law particularly residential housing; also relevant judicial review.

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Andrew Brown

Andrew is a property lawyer specialising in renewable and clean energy projects with a particular focus on solar, battery, biomass, anaerobic digestion and other waste-to-energy projects. Andrew has acted for landowners and landed estates, developers and funders in the development, financing and acquisition of a variety of projects including large (NSIP) solar schemes and portfolio financing and disposals

Keystone Law

Andrew Brown

Partner

Mills Oakley

Andrew Buckham

Partner Andrew helps injured Service personnel and their families on a variety of issues. This includes assisting severely injured service personnel with compensation claims (On and Off Duty), Boards of Inquiry and Coroners Inquests. I have represented a number of soldiers with brain and spinal injuries, including Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson. I supported Ben and his family in their fight for fairer compensation for injured soldiers. I represented and provided support to a family affected by the SAS Brecon Beacons accident, where they were able to successfully recover compensation from the MOD following a fatal accident claim.

Irwin Mitchell

Andrew Bueso

Andrew Bueso represents both lenders and borrowers in a broad range of traditional and bespoke secured and unsecured credit transactions. He advises clients on leveraged and investment-grade credit facilities, including reserve-based loans, acquisition financings, holdco facilities, multicurrency facilities, and cross-border facilities, as well as distressed credits in restructuring and workout situations. Andrew’s practice spans a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the energy sector. He regularly represents renewable and traditional energy companies, as well as domestic and international financial institutions, in financings involving energy infrastructure, renewable energy projects, exploration and production assets, midstream systems, oilfield services, and commodity trading and storage assets.

Bracewell LLP

Andrew Bulley

5 Wentworth Chambers

Andrew Burnette

Dispute resolution partner specialising in complex fraud and professional negligence, shareholder/unfair prejudice disputes, contractual/warranty claims and product liability. Particular expertise acting for both traditional and specialist lenders to recover distressed loans secured against commercial property.

Burges Salmon LLP

Andrew Burns

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP