Andrew Wordsworth

Spear’s Review

Andrew Wordsworth has the air of the man you’d want in your corner when you’re in a tight spot. Affable, charming and voluble, the co-founder of Raedas, an investigations firm specialising in litigation support, aims to do everything necessary to diagnose clients' problems and find the best solutions.

He tells Spear’s: ‘Your job is to solve the problem and get out of the way afterwards. You’re not their friend, right? You're not their best buddy. Your job is to come in as calmly as possible and make the best decisions you can without being paralysed by the fear of making the wrong decision.’

Should his clients find that their partners have let them down, their staff are leaking to the press, or law enforcement agencies are involved in their affairs, they will often call on Wordsworth. ‘Our speciality is work on legal disputes,’ he said, providing legal and PR support as required.

Adviser Profile

A “pioneer in the use of investigations in legal disputes”, Andrew Wordsworth is sought after by ultra-high net worth clients, family offices and high profile individuals to help them navigate their most complex and extraordinary contentious scenarios.

Andrew is expert in the tracing and recovery of a wide range of assets, including cash, receivables, equity, private yachts and aircraft. His investigative teams have produced evidence leading to freezing orders in the UK and across other Common Law jurisdictions and assists his clients with questions of unexplained wealth, embezzlement, offshore and trust-based ownership structures, smear-campaigns and reputational issues. He has assisted clients facing serious crises ranging from personal matters involving the threat of arrest, politically motivated tax claims, unjustified extradition requests and politically motivated accusations of corruption. 

Although all crisis situations are different, Andrew is experienced in building multi-disciplinary teams to confront problems as they emerge, working with legal and PR advisors to produce the desired outcome – with reputation of his clients at the forefront of his mind.

Andrew is expert in complex investigations, often working in matters involving international multi-stranded litigation. He has overseen hundreds of mandates on behalf of state-owned and private banks, governments and corporations, and has led high-profile investigations in the Middle East, Russia and South America and has been engaged in many of the last decade’s most prominent disputes connected to the CIS.

In 2016 Andrew Wordsworth co-founded Raedas, a London HQ investigations firm with a presence in Washington DC and Dubai. Raedas is the first, and remains the only, investigations firm dedicated to contentious situations.