Overview
Andrew was called to the Bar in 1997 and has been a partner in major City and International law firms.
He obtained his JIEB qualification in 2007 and qualified as an international arbitrator in 2013.
He has over 25 years’ experience in the insolvency, restructuring and turnaround arena and acts for officeholders, directors, funders and creditors.
During the course of Andrew’s practice he has developed a wide-ranging knowledge of company, partnership, costs, commercial disputes and insolvency law. This enables him to advise clients with a good appreciation of the wider issues relevant to them.
He was a member of the stakeholder committee between 2011 and 2015 advising on the amendments to the Insolvency Rules which culminated in the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
He acts as an advocate and in an advisory capacity and has recently advised on Part 26 Restructuring Plans, successful challenges to CVAs as well as seeking and opposing injunctions.
Andrew is a contributor to Doyle, Keay and Curl: Annotated Insolvency Legislation 2023 and regularly contributes to Lexis publications.
Commercial property
Featured cases
Emirates NBD P.J.S.C v Tavafogh (unreported)
Acted for the defendant who successfully challenged the court’s jurisdiction on forum non conveniens grounds without the need for expert evidence.
HCQ Sarl v Terre Primitive Ltd [2019] EWHC 2556
Guidance on principles applied when seeking to injunct members from placing a company into MVL when there is a dispute as to share ownership.
Publications
Doyle, Keay and Curl: Annotated Insolvency Legislation
Restructuring plans guidance on disclosure and extending timetable for sanction hearing (Re CB&I UK Ltd)
Lexis 1 February 2024 (Subscription required)
Was a petition debt genuinely disputed on substantial grounds? (Re Hall Media Group Ltd)
Lexis 10 January 2024
Inter-partes costs in appeal against decision on proof of debt (Evans v McTeare and others)
Lexis 29 November 2023
Obligation on guarantor to comply with disclosure requirements when seeking to benefit from guarantee stripping (Mizen Design/Build Ltd v Peabody Construction Ltd)
Lexis 5 May 2023
Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The Court found that administration was not a complete answer to the requirement of condition A for restructuring plans proposed under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). It was also necessary to show that condition A was satisfied on the evidence available. Separate classes were also required for the senior and junior secured debt.Written by Andrew Mace of 9 Stone Buildings who acted for Crowdstacker Corporate Services Limited (Crowdstacker).
Lexis
Paragraph 81 challenge—improper motive ends administration (Re C A & T Developments Ltd) Lexology 27 January 2020
Challenging Administrators: can they ever do any wrong?
[2010] Corporate Rescue and Insolvency August
Qualifications
- 1996 LLB
- 1997 Called (Lincoln’s Inn)
- 1999 Solicitor
- 2007 JIEB
- 2013 Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) – Arbitrator; MCIArb
Memberships
- R3: Association of Business Recovery Professionals
- Lincoln’s Inn
- GRRC
- 1994 Erasmus Utrecht University