Andrew Lyon

Andy is head of Financial Services sector at TLT and co-ordinates the legal services provided to clients.

He specialises in complex financial services disputes including professional negligence and fraud claims, business and corporate recovery, product mis-selling claims and bank security issues. Andy leads the FS Disputes team at our London office, as well as being our London location head. 

Andy has experience of managing large projects for banks, often with a collaboration element with magic/silver circle firms and LPOs. He has been immersed in the FS sector for many years and acts as the client relationship manager for one of the firm's large banking clients.

Andy has also previously worked in-house as a senior claims solicitor acting on behalf of insurers and their insured, defending high profile professional indemnity claims. He is recognised as an expert in the field of Professional Negligence by Chambers UK.

Andy qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and joined TLT in 2007. Recent experience includes:

• Advising a range of lender clients on high profile ADR projects involving thousands of claims.
• Lead partner for a major bank on an internal investigation into its alleged mistreatment of SME customers, in collaboration with a magic circle firm.
• Lead partner on a fixed rate loan mis-selling project for a major banking client.
• Acting for a major banking client on an FX Litigation project in collaboration with a global law firm.
• Acting for a bank on a £30 million claim against a member of the Saudi Royal Family.

Jurisdiction: England & Wales