Andrew Wanambwa
UK Guide 2025
Band 5 : Commercial and Corporate Litigation
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About
Provided by Andrew Wanambwa
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Andrew is a partner in the Dispute Resolution team. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution.
Andrew has extensive experience advising major corporate clients, financial institutions and high net worth individuals and has acted for clients in a number of industries, including telecoms, accountancy, finance, insurance, mining, pharmaceuticals and transport.
Andrew has advised on several large-scale disputes before the English High Court, including:
- Advising a multinational telecoms company in a £100m+ claim involving breach of fiduciary duty;
- Advising an international bank on a £100m+ professional liability claim against its former legal advisers;
- Advising a large corporate entity on a high value application for the rectification of its pension trust deed.
In addition to his London-based work Andrew has acted in Litigation and arbitral matters involving emerging markets such as Zimbabwe and Pakistan. While in Hong Kong he defended a $1.5 billion professional indemnity claim against one of the Big 4 accountancy firms. In the British Virgin Islands he advised on, among other matters, a $600 million economic tort claim involving Russian parties, shareholder disputes and he obtained freezing injunctions in support of foreign and arbitral proceedings.
Chambers Review
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Andrew Wanambwa has considerable experience representing clients including corporates, financial institutions and high net worth individuals in a variety of commercial and corporate disputes. He advises across a range of sectors, including telecoms, financial services and transport.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Andrew is an impressive litigator with an acute sense of his client's commercial objectives and how best to achieve them.He is always insightful, proactive and intelligent in the advice he gives."
"Andrew brings a thoughtful and pragmatic approach to handling difficult matters."
"Andrew has the skill to service his clients with dedicated sophistication. He is very commercial and efficient."
"Andrew is an impressive litigator with an acute sense of his client's commercial objectives and how best to achieve them.He is always insightful, proactive and intelligent in the advice he gives."
"Andrew brings a thoughtful and pragmatic approach to handling difficult matters."
"Andrew has the skill to service his clients with dedicated sophistication. He is very commercial and efficient."