Andrew Howell advises on professional negligence claims emerging out of the financial services sector, with a particular focus on professional services clients. "It has always been a pleasure to work with Andrew Howell. He provides sage, commercial advice and is robust with opponents but always professional."
Andrew Howell heads the firm's disputes and investigations team. He regularly handles FRC investigations on behalf of major accountancy firms. "It has always been a pleasure to work with Andrew. He provides sage, commercial advice and is robust with opponents but always professional." "He is one of the most level-headed litigators. He is completely unflappable and displays great common sense."
Professional Negligence - Leading Individual: Andrew Howell, 'an intelligent, careful partner, who is sensitive to client priorities' acts on disputes involving accountants, auditors, tax advisers, valuers, architects, surveyors, solicitors and investment advisers.
Professional Negligence - Leading Individual: "Andrew Howell is an intelligent, careful partner, who supports his team very effectively and is sensitive to client priorities." "I have worked with Andrew Howell and Julian Randall mostly, and I would recommend them to anyone with a difficult professional negligence or audit regulatory issue." "Strong at every level. Andrew Howell is one of the leading names in the sector, with a deep knowledge of professional negligence litigation." "Julian Randall and Andrew Howell: decades of experience in audit defence work for the big four and other major auditors. They have a depth of knowledge of the reality of auditing beyond any other London litigation team." "Some of the best individuals in this area – Andrew Howell, Julian Randall, Stuart Broom – mean the team has a real depth of expertise/experience to draw on. In this area, Taylor Wessing punches well above its weight in disputes generally." "Andrew Howell and Stuart Broom are fantastic at applying common sense to strategic and tactical problems: they ask all the right questions to make sure they don’t put a foot wrong."
Leading individual - Professional Negligence: "Andrew Howell is one of the most knowledgeable partners in the market in accountancy work."
Leading individual - Professional Negligence (Band 3): "He deals with very complicated legal and technical issues, which he is able to distill to provide practical advice."
Leading Individual - Professional Negligence (Band 2): "Andrew Howell is brimming with common sense as well as technically excellent: he never puts a foot wrong tactically. He is supported by a strong team of associates. Stuart Broom is another strong partner."
Leading individual - Professional Discipline (Band 4): "He is very bright, experienced and used to dealing with very complicated legal and technical issues." "He is a very strong presence on the defence side of big accountancy cases."
Leading individual - Professional Negligence (Band 3): "He is a superb operator who cuts through the complexity and is able to navigate through minefields."
Leading individual - Professional Discipline (Band 5): "He is a really excellent litigator who always seems to make the right judgement call."
Leading Individual - Professional Negligence (Tier 2): "The scarily intelligent Andrew Howell is fantastic to work with." "Andrew Howell is the best solicitor in London for accountants defence work. He has the full skill set." "Andrew Howell is a very experienced partner who deals with many of the substantial accounting professional negligence disputes."
Leading individual - Professional Discipline (Band 5): Andrew Howell regularly handles FRC investigations on behalf of major accountancy firms. Sources report: "He's terrific - he soaks up pressure like a sponge and gets things done on time like a well-oiled machine."
Leading individual - Professional Negligence (Band 3): Andrew Howell is an expert at defending accountants from allegations of professional negligence. Market sources say: "He is very smooth, and soaks up pressure like a sponge. He's very efficient - you know everything will be done on time and done right."
Leading individual - Insurance: Professional negligence: Andrew Howell is the complete package for professional negligence defence litigation; he is super-bright yet has bags of common sense and is always in control.
Leading individual - Professional Negligence: Financial (Band 4): Andrew Howell is well versed in claims relating to clients in the financial services industry. He represents household names including Big Four accounting firms.
Leading individual - Professional Discipline (Band 5): Andrew Howell is an experienced practitioner who specialises in regulatory investigations involving the accountancy profession. Clients say: "He's very good on details, extremely pleasant and able to be very robust in negotiations. He's also very user-friendly."
Leading individual - Insurance: Professional negligence: Team head Andrew Howell and Julian Randall are ‘outstanding litigators’; Howell is ‘good with clients and managing large teams on the most complex cases’
