**Andrew currently divides his time primarily between Dubai, Riyadh and London focusing on heavy weight arbitrations seated in the MENA region.
Andrew holds law degrees from English and Australian universities.
Upon admission to practice in Australia in November 2000, Andrew joined the Melbourne construction, engineering and infrastructure group of Minter Ellison, Lawyers. He was appointed a Senior Associate of that firm in June 2004. Prior to joining Minter Ellison, Andrew worked in London for a period under one of London’s foremost international construction law practitioners acting on behalf of, primarily, international dredging contractors in court proceedings and arbitrations including arbitrations administered by the ICSID and initiated under relevant bilateral investment treaties.
Andrew has been instructed in significant matters including arbitrations and court proceedings involving BHP’s development of the Minerva gas fields, VicUrban’s Valley Lake housing development, the $500 million redevelopment of the Newcastle coal ports and associated infrastructure, BHP’s Olympic Dam Expansion Project, the termination of a FPSO charter, the Melbourne Convention Centre development, and the new Royal Adelaide Hospital together with a variety of other domestic and commercial construction matters. Recent cases include:
Brirek Industries Pty Ltd v McKenzie Group Consulting (Vic) Pty Ltd [2014] VSCA 165 (6 August 2014) - junior counsel in Court of Appeal proceedings addressing the (much disputed) effect of the limitation provision set out in s.134 of the Building Act (Vic) 1993, in particular, whether the provision enlarges the ‘ordinary’ six year limitation period contained in the Limitation Act (Vic) 1958.
Bridge and Marine Engineering Pty Ltd v Sharvine Pty Ltd [2015] VSC 127 (16 April 2015) - sole counsel for the appellant in appeal proceedings opposed to a leading silk. Successfully argued for pleading amendments to introduce a $30 million contractual loss of chance claim overruling the decision below.
Andrew has a keen interest in the development of contract and tort law and has contributed to practitioner publications together with conducting seminars on topical construction law issues, including:
Commendation in the 2016 UK SCL Hudson Prize – essay titled ‘Global Claim – Global Confusion?’ (published (2017) 33 Const. L.J. Issue 4, 33 BCL 2).
Commendation in the 2015 UK SCL Hudson Prize – essay titled 'Contractual termination rights and the concurrent exercise or non-exercise of common law termination rights - caught between the Scylla and Charybdis?' (published (2017) 33 Const. L.J. Issue 5 and cited in the Supplement to the 10th edition of Keating).
High Commendation in the 2014 Australian SCL Brooking Prize – essay discussing the state of the law on pure economic loss in Australia, in particular judicial confusion surrounding the concept of proximity (publication forthcoming).
Author of the Victorian Lexis Nexis loose leaf services ‘Compromise of Proceedings’ and ‘Order 50 - References and Inquiries’.
Past winner of the Victorian Building Dispute Practitioners’ Society annual essay competition.
Acknowledged expressly by Canadian author Robby Bernstein in the preface to the third edition of Bernstein’s two volume work ‘Economic Loss’, Sweet and Maxwell, 2013.
Member of the Society of Construction Law (UK).
Andrew is also a graduate of the Musicians Institute of London. In his spare time he is restoring a series III Land Rover that transported his family around Australia for 6 months when he was a boy. Andrew is married with 3 children.