Andrew Mace - Barrister, 9 Stone Buildings
Andrew was called to the Bar in 1997 and has been a partner with major City and International law firms.
He obtained his JIEB qualification in 2007 and qualified as an international arbitrator in 2013. He has over 20 years’ experience in the insolvency, restructuring and turnaround arena and acts for officeholders, directors, funders and creditors.
During the course of Andrew’s practice he has developed a wide-ranging knowledge of company, partnership, costs, commercial disputes and insolvency law. This enables him to advise clients with a good appreciation of the wider issues relevant to them. He was a member of the stakeholder committee between 2011 and 2015 advising on the amendments to the Insolvency Rules which culminated in the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 and acts as an advocate in an advisory capacity, and has appeared both on his own and as part of a team in a wide variety of cases.
He has experience in:
Bondholder issues
Motor industry/motorsport
Farming
Recording industry, games industry and media
Financial regulation, in particular client money (CASS 5 and CASS 7) issues for administrators
Hotels and telecoms.
He has advised on:
Challenging/replacing Administrators
Challenging CVA decisions, hostile appointments and fraud investigations/recoveries
Injunctions to prevent the presentation/advertisement of winding up petitions
The application of CASS 5 and of Berkeley Applegate principles.
Applications challenging the validity of Company Voluntary Arrangements based on unfair prejudice.
Applications for appointment of administrators
Applications for relief from sanctions
Applications for relief from s.216 Insolvency Act provisions for directors
Intervening in applications to appoint administrators
Challenges to officeholders’ fees
Actions in respect of antecedent transactions by directors
Shareholder disputes
Unlawful dividends
Directors’ duties