Andrew has been a qualified solicitor since 1987. He spent the first nine years of his career at a mid-sized City firm.

In 1994 he moved to BP Collins in Gerrards Cross, becoming a partner shortly after. Over the next decade he helped to transform BP Collins’ company commercial department into ‘one of the strongest company and commercial departments in the South-East outside London’ at the time (Source: The Legal 500).

In 2006 Andrew accepted a partnership at IBB in Uxbridge, joining as Head of Commercial. Andrew left IBB in 2008 to set up OnHand Counsel.

Andrew James is the driving force behind AIBLwhich was formed with 14 other founder members in 2013, and which grew out of the broader Network of Independent Business Lawyers (‘NIBL’) which Andrew conceived of and founded in 2009