Biography: Commercial Litigation

Andrew Salgo is senior commercial litigation partner in the Sydney office of Baker & McKenzie. He has extensive experience in handling complex commercial disputes before courts and tribunals, and through alternative dispute resolution processes.

The disputes Andrew has handled include landmark cases in the High Court of Australia in pre-trial discovery and contract; for the advertising industry on trade practice issues; for Unilever in defending claims concerning country of origin labelling; for Arthur Andersen, the auditors of the HIH Insurance Group, following the collapse of the HIH group; for McDonald's, defending class action taken for over 6,000 customers arising out of a claims made about the conduct of an Australian-wide competition.

Andrew has had a particular interest in and exposure to class actions, a recent area of focus in Australian courts.

Andrew was chairman of Baker & McKenzie's Australian offices from 2005 to 2009. He is presently a member of Baker & McKenzie's global professional responsibility and practice committee, which deals with professional responsibility and ethical behaviour.

Andrew has also been a member of the federal civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution working groups of the Australian Law Reform Commission.