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.

Andrew’s legal practice has included a wide array of arbitration, advocacy and dispute resolution training.
He is a qualified Higher Courts Advocate and is an accredited NITA advocacy trainer. He is an accredited CIArb teaching faculty member, and teaches and examines ClArb courses in commercial arbitration, especially award writing. He has conducted tailored teaching in arbitration for law firms, for example in Mongolia, and for Arbitral Institutions, for example Panel Arbitrators in Vietnam.
Andrew’s training is very much bespoke and tailored to the needs of individual Firms and clients. A wide range of contentious topics can be covered to the depth required. The focus of this training is primarily on international and comparative subjects, such as international arbitration and investment treaties, cross border and jurisdictional issues, Civil versus Common law, EU and other regional issues.
For business executives and in-house lawyers, Andrew teaches claims avoidance, preparation and management, as well as dealing with regulatory investigations and raids.
The training can be from a few hours to 10 days and is steered towards case studies based on real disputes, and as inter-active as can be achieved