Andrew Sutton has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of high-stakes complex commercial litigation from pre-complaint investigation to enforcing hard-won jury verdicts.
He has represented major corporations and high-net-worth individuals in the United States and China. He has litigated billion-dollar antitrust class actions, adversary proceedings in billion-dollar crypto bankruptcies, and hundred-million-dollar securities, contract, environmental, and real estate disputes. He also has experience successfully prosecuting international arbitrations seated in Hong Kong and Singapore on behalf of American and Chinese clients.
He is a rarity: an experienced trial lawyer in an age where even senior litigators seldom have the privilege of presenting a case to a jury. He has tried cases before judges and juries in jurisdictions throughout the country since his first year as an attorney, and he is always looking for another trial at which to hone his skills.
Andrew maintains an active pro bono practice representing asylum seekers and prisoners seeking constitutional redress.
Before joining Brithem, Andrew practiced at Quinn Emanuel and Brown Rudnick.
Credentials
Columbia Law School, J.D.
St. John’s College, B.A.
Quinn Emanuel, Associate
Brown Rudnick, Counsel
Select Recognition
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Litigation, The American Antitrust Institute Antitrust Enforcement Awards (2018)
Impact Matters
Aided creditors of a collapsed cryptocurrency exchange
For the Estate of FTX, Andrew advised on the investigation and pursuit of adversary proceeding claims for the benefit of customers and creditors in the company’s highly contentious billion-dollar bankruptcy; the former CEO was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $11 billion in civil forfeiture.
Won an appellate reversal and complete victory in decade-long environmental litigation
For GAF, a major construction supply company, Andrew helped obtain a complete victory on appeal before the Delaware Supreme Court in its decade-long litigation with other private companies over the responsibility for environmental liability related to a long-discontinued factory in New Jersey.
Recovered more than half a billion for a pension fund
For Alaska Electrical Pension Fund, Andrew helped secure pre-trial settlements worth approximately $504 million on behalf of plaintiffs in an antitrust class action in the Southern District of New York.
Overall Experience
Andrew has represented:
- JBS USA, the second largest pork producer in the country, in defense against a nationwide class action and MDL brought by plaintiffs’ lawyers and state attorneys general alleging anticompetitive conduct in the pork market.
- HPS Investment Partners in obtaining a complete defense trial verdict in favor of HPS and other funds in a dispute over approximately $100 million.
- The Home Depot in its litigation against Visa and Mastercard over billions of dollars of allegedly supra-competitive credit card fees.
- Confidential Australian bank in obtaining an eight-figure arbitration award in an expedited real estate arbitration in Delaware.
- Confidential Chinese company and a high-net-worth individual in obtaining an eight-figure arbitration settlement in an international real estate arbitration seated in Hong Kong.
- Disabled individual in obtaining a confidential settlement from a major healthcare provider.