Education

Andrew is a Partner in the firm and was educated at Seaford College, Petworth and Woking Sixth Form Collee. He gained his degree in 1986 from City of London Polytechnic, now part of London Metropolitan University. After attending Guildford Law School, he entered into Articles at Wedlake Bell in Convent Garden, being admitted to The Law Society in January 1991.

Andrew is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Experience

After qualifying, Andrew spent a year in Cambridgeshire undertaking general practice before working in the Greater London area and has spent the majority of his career in London itself, including almost 10 years in Lincoln’s In, where he was a Partner. Andrew has specialised in Private Client work and property work, including commercial property, throughout his career.

Andrew’s interest in Private Client covers lifetime and post death work, with thorough administration, tax planning and a wide grasp of issues, whiles seeking to add value to Estate administration. Andrew believes in many benefits to clients of the involvement of professional firms and appointments of Partners, such as Michael Stocken as Senior Partner of Letchers, as an Executor, believing families are never straight forward when it comes to inheritance. Benefits of such appointments allow in his experience for the breadth of complex issues, which often surface in an Estate’s administration at difficult times for family members, when there are often diverging interests. Andrew has an interest in Claims under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Ac 1975 and Probate Claims.

Andrew’s involvement in the property field has covered advice o professional investors, transactions including offshore companies and concentration on high value properties, even for billionaire family interests, extension of short leases by Claims under 1993 Housing Act and transactions involving commercial premises, including licenced ones and even an aircraft hangar, together with landlord and tenant issues under 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act (Part II). Andrew has a commitment to detail and diligence in all transactions.

Role

Andrew is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and Head of Private Client at Letchers.

Outside Interests

Andrew was a Borough Councillor for 8 years in the esteemed London Borough of Wandsworth, engaging with a number of those involved in and around Government, is a former school Governor, was Head of Group and sat on the Wandsworth Planning Committee for 8 years, making decisions on major development in the Borough along the South Bank of the Thames and Battersea Power Station, which he recalls the diligence and knowledge of the current London Mayor, as a fellow Committee Member.

Andrew has an enthusiasm for the countryside and the coast. While he sometimes regrets not going into agriculture, he enjoys walking his dog on the Hampshire/Sussex border.

Andrew is a member of the MCC and has, for a number of years, run a wandering village cricket side, largely based in Southwest Surrey and which was founded by his father in 1961. Andrew is married to a teacher in the independent sector and with both having travelled widely between them they have visited 100 countries. Andrew ha a daughter heading towards teenage years which, combined with a cocker-spaniel, a large garden and interest in sport keeps Andrew busy out of office hours, although Andrew yearns one day to see England win The Ashes in Australia.