Andrew Mold

Commercial CV

Andrew has extensive commercial litigation experience especially of interlocutory applications in the High Court. Notable matters that Andrew has worked on include the following:

• Ackerman v Ackerman & Thornhill.  Substantial proceedings brought to set aside the provisional report of an expert who determined the division of a large property empire between two sides of a family.  The challenge was made on the grounds of bias, collusion and material departure from instructions.
  
  
• Merchantbridge & Co v Safron General Partner 1.  This case concerned proceedings brought by an investment adviser against the fund manager of a Cayman Islands based hedge fund for breach of an investment advisory agreement.  A third party costs order was also obtained against the shareholders of the fund manager who were financing its defence.  The Lawyer Article
  
  
• Harley Street Capital v Tchigirinski and others. High Court litigation centring around an Anglo-Russian energy company involving claims of fraud, the rights of minority shareholders, derivative proceedings, service out, freezing injunctions and breach of fiduciary duties.
  
  
• Sagicor (Cayman) Ltd v Hurlstone and others. Proceedings before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands in which claims of insurance fraud arising out of Hurricane Ivan were successfully defended. Further proceedings for an account of damages suffered as a result of a freezing injunction which had been in place for three years and for abuse of process followed the main action.
  
  
• Reeves v Sprecher. Acting for one partner in a dispute over the ownership of a successful hedge fund business. Parallel proceedings were launched in England and St Kitts & Nevis involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent misrepresentation and the unfair redemption of shares.
  
  
• Two large-scale commercial arbitrations involving claims under an indemnity for pension mis-selling liabilities given in a sale and purchase agreement for an insurance company.
  
  
• Confidential proceedings in the Queen's Bench Division to obtain an urgent injunction preventing a licensor from repudiating a worldwide licence agreement for the manufacture of clothing. Simultaneous proceedings were ongoing in Delaware and Illinois.