Commercial Litigation: Jurisdictional Comparisons, 2nd Edition

Andrew Horrocks is the founder of Andrew Horrocks Law Limited, London. He also acts as a consultant to Radiant Law, London.

Andrew has a long track record of success in helping clients resolve contentious legal problems. He was for many years until April 2014 a commercial litigation partner with Clyde & Co LLP.  Andrew has broad experience includes a variety of IT-related claims, including software development and licensing, IT procurement, consultancy and outsourcing matters. He advises on claims, insurance, and legal risk management related to technology, e-commerce and cyber-risk and handles contentious issues concerning IP, websites and email use. He also handles company and shareholder disputes in the financial, technology and other industry sectors. Andrew is also well known for his professional liability work, not least for solicitors and their insurers. He has considerable experience of mortgage fraud claims and multiparty litigation. He has extensive expertise in mediation and experience in arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution techniques.

As a consultant, Andrew helps clients develop and execute strategies to avoid and resolve disputes, conducting and advising on litigation and arbitration where necessary but also using mediation and other forms of ADR (alternative dispute resolution) wherever possible.  He advises on a wide range of contentious issues and subject matter but has done in particular many cases involving technology and professional services.  He deals not just with problems once they have arisen but also the management of legal risk and insurance issues.

Andrew writes and lectures widely on legal and dispute-handling topics in all his areas of practice. He publishes articles in the legal and national press and contributes to the Sweet & Maxwell Encyclopaedia of IT Law. He is a member of the Society for Computers and Law and the British Insurance Law Association. He has chaired Managing Partner magazine's annual "Risk Management for the Legal Profession" conference in 2011, and has chaired the Annual CLT Professional Liability conference on numerous occasions.

Maurice Phelan is a partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Team at Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin. His personal focus is on Commercial Litigation, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency. Maurice has experience in a wide range of commercial litigation matters including high value contractual and tortious disputes and shareholders disputes, often with an international component. Maurice frequently acts for financial institutions in complex commercial disputes and he has also acted for both claimants and respondents in domestic and international commercial arbitrations.

Maurice routinely advises insolvency office holders and stakeholders in the insolvency process. He also advises companies and their directors in distressed situations on corporate restructuring and insolvency issues.