Andrew Christopher

Andrew heads our disputes, regulatory, and competition & consumer law practice. He is a highly-skilled litigator and regulatory lawyer with over 35 years’ experience representing corporate and government clients as well as individuals.

Throughout his long career, Andrew has acted for a wide range of clients in diverse industries. Andrew represents businesses and company directors in dealings with all the major regulatory agencies including the ACCC,ASIC, AUSTRAC, ATO and APRA. This work includes  defending civil court proceedings and  criminal prosecutions. Andrew also has extensive merger clearance, authorisation, adjudication, mediation and arbitration experience.

Andrew has conducted several representative actions and class action defences and was named Best Lawyers Class Action Lawyer of the Year.  Andrew’s class action experience includes product liability, shareholder and mass tort claims. Andrew is also a leading cartel lawyer having represented corporate or individual defendants, or acted for the ACCC, in almost all of the cartel proceedings conducted to date.

Over the past 20 years, Andrew has also acted for the ACCC and ASIC in some of their most important enforcement matters.

As an experienced adviser with significant general experience, Andrew also advises non-executive directors, law firms and other professional service firms, and private companies on complex legal issues, helping them solve issues, complete important assignments and resolve disputes with complete discretion and experienced judgement. He is regularly engaged as an independent legal adviser and works alongside company lawyers to provide assistance to executives and employees. With over 3 decades of experience, Andrew has deep expertise in representing company directors and executives in high- stakes matters. Andrew has also represented government ministers and senior public servants in diverse forums including ICAC, the Electoral Commission, the NSW Ombudsman, Senate Inquiries, ACCC and ASIC examinations and in Commissions of Inquiry.     

Before joining Webb Henderson as the founder of our competition and disputes practice, Andrew was the national practice manager of disputes and competition law of one of the world’s largest law firms.

Andrew holds an LLM from Sydney University and B.Juris and LLB degrees from the University of New South Wales. He also lectured in competition and trade practices law and insurance law at UNSW for several years and has represented the ACCC as a non-government advisor in ICN activities. He is the Asian Section Editor of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer law; a contributing editor of the LexisNexis Practical Guide to Competition Law; a widely published commentator; and a member of the Advertising Standards Industry Jury. Andrew is also a board member of various not-for-profit community and sporting organisations.