Name: Andrew J. Entwistle
Item: Andrew J. Entwistle
Author: aentwistle

Bio

Andrew J. Entwistle is the Firm’s managing partner. The son of a Scottish coal miner and an American schoolteacher, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from the University of Syracuse College of Law. Mr. Entwistle’s practice principally involves the representation of public and private institutional investors and public and private corporations in complex litigation (including both the prosecution and defense of securities and antitrust cases), corporate finance and transactional matters and internal investigations.
After a brief tenure in the District Attorney’s office, Mr. Entwistle became a lead trial and appellate attorney at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, trying a broad variety of products liability, commercial, securities, insurance coverage and reinsurance, antitrust and government-related matters. During the following years with Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, Mr. Entwistle’s trial and appellate practice also came to include transaction-related litigation, antitrust and bankruptcy work and internal investigations. Mr. Entwistle also works closely with the governors, treasurers and attorneys general of several states. In connection with the firm’s corporate practice, Mr. Entwistle has acted as lead counsel on joint ventures, restructurings, venture capital placements and a multi-billion dollar leveraged buyout.
Recent litigation successes include: representation of the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association in In re Royal Ahold N.V. Securities and ERISA Litigation resulting in recovery of more than $1.1B for his clients; acting as co-lead counsel in the MF Global litigation arising out of the loss of $1.6B in customer funds where Mr. Entwistle successfully worked with the SIPA Trustee and regulators to negotiate the 100 percent recovery by customers of all net equity losses (including separate recoveries totaling more than $100m against JPMC and the CME); successfully co-leading the JPMC settlement that resulted in contemporaneously negotiated resolutions of class, claw back and regulatory claims recovering a total of $2.243B for Madoff victims with net losses; and co-leading the ongoing Tremont litigation that resolved claw back litigation through an agreement that resulted in a $2.9B allowed SIPA claim for Tremont customers (and the recovery of more than $100m in additional settlements). On the defense side, Mr. Entwistle was recently appointed by Judge Pauley as co-liaison counsel in the multi-billion dollar Tribune litigation which successfully resulted in dismissal of the Note Holder litigation.
Mr. Entwistle and his team also regularly represent corporate boards, audit and special committees in connection with internal investigations involving potential regulatory and/or criminal issues–often in “bet the company” situations where it is particularly important for regulators to understand that the investigation is being led by a team equally familiar with prevailing in billion dollar matters from both sides of the “v”.
Appointed by the late Judge Lifland of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to serve on the Court’s Special Mediation Panel, Mr. Entwistle has both mediated and actively litigated a number of complex bankruptcy matters including representing the Retired Employees Committee in the OMC Bankruptcy, equity holders in the American Bank Note Bankruptcy, the State of Florida in connection with the Enron Bankruptcy, acting as special litigation counsel in connection with the Global Crossing Bankruptcy, and representing investors in connection with the MF Global, Refco, Lehman, and BMIS bankruptcies.
Mr. Entwistle is proud to have received the 2013 Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee, the Knute Rockne Award from Hannah & Friends where he continues to serve on the board of directors, the 2016 Vision Of Hope Award form Boys Hope Girls Hope where he also serves on the board and the 2003 Man of the Year Award from the Catholic Big Brothers for Boys and Girls after more than a decade of service on the Board of that organization–including founding Sports Buddies New York, a partnership between the youth of New York City and athletes from the New York region’s professional sports teams. Mr. Entwistle has also received special commendations from the President of the United States, the Governors of the States of Georgia and Hawaii, and the New York State Assembly. In addition to the above, Mr. Entwistle is now or has previously acted as a director on several corporate, advisory and charitable boards. In addition to membership in the Federal Bar Council and various city, county, state and national bar associations, Mr. Entwistle is a member of the National Association of Public Pension Funds Attorneys and is an Educational Sustainer of the Council of Institutional Investors.
Mr. Entwistle has been named to the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, the Order of International Fellowship, Who’s Who In The World, Who’s Who In America, Who’s Who In The East, Who’s Who In American Law, Who’s Who In Practicing Attorneys, Who’s Who In Emerging Leaders In America and Who’s Who In Finance and Industry, and as a New York “Super Lawyer”. The International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England named Mr. Entwistle as its International Legal Professional of the Year for 2004 and inducted him into the Centre’s International Order of Merit.
Mr. Entwistle acts as Northeast Regional Editor for the Defense Research Institute publication The Business Suit (from 1998-present), is a member of various bar and business associations and he has lectured extensively on a variety of general business law, litigation, securities, antitrust, bankruptcy and trial issues including, by way of example only: acting as a panelist on the Sarbanes-Oxley Panel at the Federal Bar Council’s 2003 Annual Winter Bench and Bar Conference; as a panelist on both the Class Action Litigation and Cross Border Issues Panels at the Federal Bar Council’s 2005 Conference; acting as a panelist on the Supreme Court Review Panel at the Federal Bar Council’s 2008 Conference; acting as a panelist for the American Bar Association’s conference entitled “Implied Repeals of the Antitrust Laws: How Far Are the Courts Willing to Go?”; and co-chairing a New York State Bar Association Panel on Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Trial Practice Committee of the State Bar’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. Mr. Entwistle is frequently interviewed by journalists, including interviews on CNN and CNBC on developing legal and business issues of the day; by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times; and by the Insider Exclusive about topics including the Bernard Madoff Scandal, Wall Street’s Meltdown, the American Financial System, and the Fight to Save Tator’s Dodge. In 2005 the Texas State Bar Association asked Mr. Entwistle to videotape a talk on disaster-related issues to assist lawyers and other professionals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The videotape also received broad distribution by the State of Mississippi and State of Texas Governors’ offices.

Andrew J. Entwistle

Find Featured Recipients

Attorney Acceptance Form

Attorney Login

Andrew J. Entwistle

Login

Sign up for America's Top 100 Bet-the-Company Litigators