Andrew Jeffries is an experienced arbitrator and arbitration counsel who had dealt with a vast
range of commercial disputes. Since retiring from Allen & Overy LLP in 2011, he has pursued
his career as an independent arbitrator, expert determiner and also as an external training consultant on
arbitration and dispute resolution. He sits as party-appointed, sole and presiding arbitrator.
He has sat as arbitrator in disputes across the globe covering in particular energy,
infrastructure and construction projects, joint ventures, manufacturing and licensing,
finance and general commercial trading. In Asia-Pacific this includes disputes concerning
power stations, major infrastructure construction, electronics manufacture and licensing and
copyright, a food processing complex and a variety of joint venture, sale and purchase and
other commercial arrangements.

Since 1989 he has also acted as counsel in numerous arbitrations worldwide. Within Asia-
Pacific this has included such matters as a power plant dispute in Hong Kong, a Hong Kong
import/export business, an inter-State disputed offshore oil unitisation, the operation of two Philippines
geothermal power plants, the Manila water and sewerage system, construction and
operation of a Korean chemical plant and a Singapore incinerator plant, development of a
PRC toll road network, and ISDA swaps arbitrations in the PRC.

He has acted as arbitrator or counsel under all the major arbitration rules and institutions,
including LCIA, ACICA, KLRCA (now AIAC), ICC, ICSID, HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC,
and AAA. He is a panel arbitrator for ACICA, SIAC, AIAC and VIAC. He is a UK Civil
Higher Court Advocate and conducted arbitrations as lead advocate.

In 2003 he was appointed a Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Hong Kong. He was the
author of Enforcement of Arbitration Awards in China for Sweet & Maxwell's Arbitration
in China, A Practical Guide. He sat as a Hong Kong Council Member for the ICC and was
part of the Hong Kong Department of Justice committee on reform of the Arbitration
Ordinance of Hong Kong. He was a member of the Law Reform Commission of Hong

Kong, and the Law Society of Hong Kong Council.
He also acts as a training consultant, in particular for CIArb, teaching dispute resolution
subjects, including commercial arbitration and advocacy. He provides bespoke training to
law firms and professional bodies and is a preferred tutor for the AIAC Academy.

He is an accredited expert determiner.