Andrew is the Head of Corporate Recovery and Insolvency at Watson Burton and is recognised as a leader in his field in the UK (Chambers and Partners 2008 legal directory).

Andrew has focused his energies on building the group’s share of administration sales and purchases in the region and beyond and also of s110 Insolvency Act 1986 Reconstructions. Andrew has completed in excess of 50 transactions involving the sale & purchase of insolvent businesses as a going concern from administrators since the Enterprise Act 2002 came into force and has contributed to the saving of thousands of jobs nationally.

Andrew's expertise in insolvency is all encompassing and includes:

• Administrations, Administrative Receiverships, LPA Receiverships, Liquidations, Provisional Liquidations and Corporate Voluntary Arrangements
• Pre-pack administration sales (acting for seller and purchaser)
• Administration sales to 3rd party purchasers
• Informal Reorganisations and Turnaround
• Negotiating with Funders
• Section 110 Schemes
• Advice to directors on their duties in particular during the twilight period
• Officeholders' powers and duties
• Asset recovery
• Antecedent transactions including misfeasance and breach of duty claims
• Directors' disqualification
• Asset and debt recovery through pursuit of winding up petitions
• Investigation and asset tracing
• Presenting statutory demands
• Applications to set aside statutory demands
• Issuing bankruptcy petitions
• Advising on voluntary arrangements
• Realising assets on bankruptcy including possession proceedings in respect of matrimonial home
• Advising on antecedent transactions and pursuing claims by way of Conditional Fee Agreement and conditional and deferred adverse costs insurance.

Andrew is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals.

Andrew's expertise in insolvency is wide ranging and he has been described as a leader in his field by Chambers and Partners. He is described as “sensible and sound” in the Chambers 2008 directory and is recognised by the publication as a confident lawyer who is “building on his good standing among IPs”.

Andrew is also credited with a “holistic awareness of both contentious and non-contentious insolvency law”.