Andrew Mold

Practice Overview

Andrew has a broad practice covering general commercial and traditional chancery work. Within these fields, he has particularly strong interests in trusts (both offshore and onshore), pensions, commercial contracts, fraud and breach of fiduciary duties, professional liability, company and partnership disputes as well as property-related work.

He enjoys both the advisory and advocacy sides of his practice and is experienced in mediation and arbitration.  In recent times, Andrew has gained significant experience of working on so-called 'big money' divorce cases involving the treatment of trust assets.   He has also been instructed in many of the recent leading pension cases especially those considering the use of the Pensions Regulator's powers.

Many of Andrew's cases involve an international element and he has been admitted to the Bar of the Cayman Islands where he has appeared as an advocate. 

In the past couple of years, Andrew has been engaged on matters concerning proceedings in Jersey, the Isle of Man, Cyprus, Switzerland, Singapore, Bermuda, St Kitts & Nevis, the British Virgin Islands, several states of the USA and the Cayman Islands.

Professional Reputation

Andrew is recommended by Chambers & Partners as a leading barrister in the fields of traditional chancery, commercial chancery and pensions work and by The Legal 500, for his pensions work.

He is described as: a "star in the making"; who provides "a remarkable intellectual contribution to a case"; "a first-class junior, who produces superb work"; "an outstanding junior and will rise fast"; "an extremely hard-working barrister who thinks beyond the questions put to him by instructing solicitors"; and "incredibly easy to deal with".

Andrew also recently featured in Legalweek's "Stars at the Bar" being described as "second to none in work ethos and how he deals with clients".

Qualifications

• First Class honours degree in law, St John's College, Cambridge
• Clifford Chance David Gottlieb prize for obtaining the highest law examination mark in the year at the University of Cambridge
• Jacovides prize for international law
• College and university awards for gaining a first in each year of undergraduate degree
• LLM from Harvard Law School
• Hardwicke and Mansfield Scholarships from Lincoln's Inn
• Registered Advocate before DIFC Courts (Dubai International Financial Centre Courts).

Memberships

• Chancery Bar Association
• COMBAR
• Association of Pension Lawyers
• Bar Pro Bono Panel
• Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association

Publications

• Author of the Negligence Section of Cordery on Solicitors
• Frequent author of articles on a variety of legal subjects
• Speaker at law firm in-house training and legal conferences
• Contributor to Wilberforce organised seminars on hedge funds and professional liability

• Vilification of offshore 'tax havens' smacks of hypocrisy (Legal Week, 2009)
  Authors: Edward Sawyer and Andrew Mold