
Andrew A. McWhorter
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Disputes & Investigations
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- Pro Bono
- Represents investment funds, financial institutions, corporations, and individuals in complex commercial litigation.
- Advises clients on matters related to federal securities laws, fiduciary duties, contract disputes, regulatory compliance, and bankruptcy proceedings.
Andrew is a counsel in Akin’s investment funds litigation practice.
Andrew represents investment funds, corporations, and individual clients in a broad range of state, federal, and cross-border litigation. He advises clients in matters related to partnership and investors disputes, breach of contract claims, fiduciary duty issues, federal securities laws, complex financial products, distressed real estate, and bankruptcy proceedings.
During law school, Andrew was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, served as executive managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, and interned for the Honorable Valerie E. Caproni of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Representing investment firms and individuals as plaintiffs and defendants in multi-million dollar contractual disputes in the New York Supreme Court Commercial Division and Delaware Chancery Court.
- Representing an investor in trust instruction proceedings in New York concerning the treatment of hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds kept in dozens of residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) deals.
- Defending investment firms in federal securities actions claiming tens of millions of dollars in profits for alleged “short-swing” profits under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act.
- Representing special loan servicers and financial institutions in connection with foreclosures on commercial and multi-family residential properties.
EducationJ.D., Columbia Law School, 2019
B.A., University of Alabama, cum laude, 2015
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2019
B.A., University of Alabama, cum laude, 2015
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York