Andreas Gledhill

Contact details:

3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.

Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
Email andreasgledhill@southsquare.com. Web www.southsquare.com

Career:

Called 1992

Appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (London “A” panel), February 2007.

Areas of practice:

Insolvency (all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency).

Company law (Including securities, shareholders’ disputes, and directors’ duties).

Commercial litigation (banking and finance, and general City-related litigation).

Fraud and asset recovery (including freezing orders and other pre-trial remedies, tracing claims and cross-border litigation).

Professional negligence (solicitors and accountants).

What the legal directories say:

Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession

Insolvency –

“An ‘eloquent advocate’ who gives ‘commercially sound advice’. Solicitors value the fact that ‘when you go into a conference you can see the client instantly relax as he walks in’” (2007).

‘”A bit like a younger version of Robin Dicker’. As ‘bright as a button’, ‘technically on the ball’ and a ‘trustworthy pragmatist’, he is ‘a great man to have your team’”. (2006).

“Tipped by many to be ‘a real star of the future’” (2005).

UK Legal 500

Company –

“…others with comparable reputations in both insolvency and company law are … Andreas Gledhill” (2007).

“Highly rated junior Andreas Gledhill” (2006).

Leading cases:

Reported cases since 2000:

Nomura International plc v. Granada Group Limited (2007) 1 C.L.C. 479.

In re Sendo Ltd [2006] 1 B.C.L.C. 395.

In re Spectrum Plus Ltd. [2004] Ch. 337.

Rock Nominees Ltd. v. RCO (Holdings) Ltd. [2004] 1 B.C.L.C. 439 (C.A.).

In re Marini Ltd. [2004] B.C.C. 172.

Woodland-Ferrari v. UCL Group Retirement Benefits Scheme [2003] Ch. 115.

Omgate Limited v. Gordon [2001] B.P.I.R. 909.

Cadwell v. Jackson [2001] B.P.I.R. 966.

In re Drake Insurance plc [2001] Lloyd’s Rep. I.R. 643.

Tuppen v. Microsoft Corporation [2000] The Times, 15 November.

Biosource Technologies Inc v. Axis Genetics plc [2000] 1 B.C.L.C. 286

Additional major cases include:

Nomura International plc v. Granada Group Ltd. (2006-to date) (acting for the defendants to a claim arising out of the Box Clever merger).

In re Harringtons Ltd.; Yeldon v. Mosses (2004-2006) (acting for the liquidator in a substantial misfeasance claim against the former directors of an insolvent company).

Enron Capital & Trade Resources Ltd. v. Morgan Stanley (2003-2004) (acting for the Enron administrators in a claim on derivative contracts).

State of Brunei v. Prince Jefri Bolkiah (1999-2000) (acting for the Brunei Investment Authority to recover embezzled state funds).

Thyssen-Bornemisza v. Thyssen-Bornemisza (1997-1998) (acting for the claimant in proceedings to set aside a trust in Bermuda).

Education:

Christ’s College, Cambridge (First Class honours, 1988).