Andrew is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Sydney office. Prior to joining the Sydney office, Andrew was a partner in the firm’s New York office, and is a dual-qualified lawyer with extensive experience litigating in both Australia and the United States.
Andrew’s practice focuses on litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters involving complex, high profile and high value disputes, in which he regularly acts for both plaintiffs and defendants. Andrew has represented numerous domestic and foreign clients in the financial services sector, including banks, hedge funds, private equity firms and venture capitalists. He also has significant experience in the fin tech, health care, insurance and franchise sectors, where he has represented clients in multi-billion dollar commercial disputes, as well as sensitive, high profile government investigations.
Andrew also specialises in class action matters, in which he regularly acts for manufacturers, service providers and financial services companies who are targets of class action proceedings in Australian state and federal courts.
Given his unique experience as a dual-qualified litigator, Andrew frequently represents Australian clients in US-based litigation, as well as US clients who are litigating in Australia. For these cross-border matters, Andrew relies on a team of dual-qualified lawyers based in Quinn Emanuel’s Sydney office, as well as the firm’s deep bench of US litigators.
- AIG
- Bain Capital
- Carlyle
- EQT
- Express Scripts
- Hyundai
- Iluka
- Kia
- KKR
- Laser Clinics Australia
- Latitude Financial
- Lehman Brothers
- Macquarie Bank
- Morgan Stanley
- Och-Ziff
- Potentia
- SoftBank
- Currently representing Hyundai and Kia in class action proceedings in the Australian Federal Court arising out of alleged defects in the crankshaft assembly of various Hyundai and Kia vehicles.
- Currently representing Hyundai and Kia in class action proceedings in the Victorian Supreme Court arising out of alleged defects in anti-lock breaking systems.
- Currently representing IC Markets in class actions proceedings in the Australian Federal Court concerning alleged breaches of the Corporations Act associated with the issuance of contracts for difference.
- Currently representing US fin tech company Digital Asset in relation to Parliamentary Joint Committee and ASIC investigations into ASX’s CHESS Replacement Project.
- Currently representing KKR in relation to collapse of Australian portfolio company GenesisCare.
- Currently representing the SoftBank Vision Funds in ongoing proceedings in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom arising out of the collapse of Australian supply chain finance company Greensill Capital.
- Brokered a successful settlement for client EverBlu Capital with ASIC concerning high profile market manipulation allegations
- Obtained summary judgment for US pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts in a $15 billion contract dispute with its largest client, Anthem, venued in the Southern District of New York.
- Successfully resolved franchisee dispute for Laser Clinics Australia.
- Obtained a favorable settlement for Australian white-goods retailer Winning Appliances in a dispute concerning the alleged issuance of options to a former company executive, venued in New South Wales Supreme Court.
- Obtained a favorable settlement for Australian mining company Iluka in $100 million plus New York-based litigation against Chemours, arising out of Chemours’ declaration of a COVID-19-related force majeure event under a long term minerals supply contract.
- Obtained a $100 million award for National Australia Bank in a FINRA arbitration against Goldman Sachs arising out of fraudulent misrepresentations made by Goldman in connection with the sale of $80 million in CDO securities. This award constituted one of the largest amounts ever awarded by a FINRA panel.
- Obtained very favorable settlements for the Lehman Brothers Estate in derivatives disputes with Citibank and Credit Suisse, the former of which required Citi to return $1.74 billion of the $2 billion in collateral that it held at the time of Lehman’s default. The Citi settlement was reached after a 6 month trial in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Obtained a $650 million settlement for American International Group in a long-running fraud action against Bank of America and Countrywide arising out of misrepresentations made in conjunction with the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities.
- Harvard Law School
(LL.M., 2009) - University of Sydney Law School
(LL.B., First Class Honors, 2006)- Sydney University Law Review:
- Editor
- Sybil Morrison Prize
- Sydney University Law Review:
- University of Sydney
(B.A., First Class Honors and University Medal, 2004)- John Anderson Prize for Best Thesis in Philosophy
- High Court of Australia
- Federal Courts of Australia
- Supreme Court of New South Wales
- United States Court of Appeals:
- Second Circuit
- United States District Court:
- Southern District of New York
- Clayton Utz (Sydney, Australia):
- Associate, 2007-2008
- Associate, 2007-2008
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Peter R. Graham:
- Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, Australia, 2007-2008
- The Evolution of the Common Law Principle of ‘Issue Waiver’ (2008) 82 Australian Law Journal 338
- ‘Dangerous’ Substances and Activities in the Context of a Non-delegable Duty of Care (2007) 15(3) Torts Law Journal 233
- Merger Regulation Reform: Do We Need a Formal Clearance Process? (2006) 28 Sydney Law Review 535