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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

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Twenty Essex
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

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28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

Twenty Essex
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Andrew Dinsmore

Andrew Dinsmore

Call: 2013 (England and Wales); 2018 (Northern Ireland)

Andrew has extensive international commercial litigation and arbitration experience. His practice focuses on cybersecurity fraud, banking, shipbuilding, shipping, energy, insurance and sport. He is often instructed to appear both as junior counsel in complex, multi-jurisdictional, high-value cases and as sole counsel in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division and in arbitration.

Andrew is instructed in a number of high-value international fraud claims across a range of contexts including conspiracy, misappropriated funds by a director and transactions defrauding creditors within s. 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

He acted for the tenth defendant in a US$300m fraud concerning forged warehouse receipts in the context of commodities repurchasing agreements in Hong Kong and Singapore (led by David Lewis KC) which proceeded to a five-week trial in the autumn of 2021: E,D & F Man Capital Markets Limited v Come Harvest Limited & others [2022] EWHC 229 (Comm). They appeared in the Court of Appeal in this case on the application of the res inter alios acta principle: [2022] EWCA Civ 1704. During this case, they appeared in a jurisdiction challenge in the High Court, [2019] EWHC 1661 (Comm), [2019] I.L.Pr. 40, and the Court of Appeal, [2019] EWCA Civ 2073, concerning the role of multiplicity of proceedings in a Part 11 challenge. Further, Andrew acted as junior counsel to Philip Edey KC in Suppipat v Narongdej, which concerned a US$2 billion fraud relating to shares in a Thai wind farm and is cited in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2022.

Andrew also acts regularly as sole counsel. He recently appeared in a complex limitation case requiring a full day of cross-examination in the High Court, Giddens v Frost [2022] EWHC 1022 (Comm). Further, he appeared as sole counsel in Tonstate Group Limited v Wojakovski [2021] EWHC 1122 (Ch) in which he successfully argued that money held on account by solicitors were not ‘assets’ of the respondent to a freezing injunction and obtained indemnity costs, [2021] EWHC 1995 (Ch). Previously, Andrew appeared as sole counsel in Schenker Ltd v Negocios Europa Ltd [2018] 1 WLR 718; [2017] EWHC 2921 (QB) where he successfully extended the law so that the freight rule applies to airfreight. Andrew is also acting in a complex, nine-figure derivative action claim concerning the stripping of company assets by a director (led by Philip Riches KC) and an eight-figure international conspiracy claim concerning the Steinhoff Group (led by Andrew Ayres KC).

Andrew has experience of large-scale, complex arbitrations having acted in 11 inter-linked shipbuilding arbitrations (led by Duncan Matthews KC and Josephine Davies). Andrew was also part of a further Counsel team in the same dispute that successfully defended a s. 69 application in Jiangsu Guoxin Corporation Ltd (formerly known as Sainty Marine Corporation Ltd v Precious Shipping Public Co. Ltd [2021] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 413, [2020] EWHC 1030 (Comm), in which Butcher J held that the prevention principle did not apply to the amended SAJ Form.

He regularly publishes articles for the New Law Journal (NLJ), the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (JIBFL), the European Business Law Review and the Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly. He also sat on the Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) Brexit Working Groups, which published papers on the impact of Brexit on private international law and on international arbitration.

Andrew has been ranked in The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023 for both Shipping (Tier 4) and Commodities (Tier 3).

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He is very user-friendly indeed, grounded and willing to put his shoulder to the wheel, handling advocacy with considerable cogency and focus.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Highly intelligent, commercially aware, and exceptionally efficient.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

A tenacious advocate with a very good eye for detail who offers proactive and practical comment and advice.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Hard-working, creative and pro-active.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

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