Andrew Clarke has served as Chairman of Emissary Partners since early 2024 and brings a wealth of experience from 35 years in the global energy industry with ExxonMobil and BP. In his role as Chairman of Emissary Partners, Andrew provides strategic counsel for Emissary’s family office clients facing challenging legacy asset matters as well as governance leadership for the Emissary team as the firm continues to grow.
Among his roles over 33 years at ExxonMobil, Andrew served as General Counsel for ExxonMobil International and as principal legal advisor for the company’s global liquid natural gas (LNG) business. Andrew provided leadership on corporate, transactional and dispute matters around the world, including in postings in the U.K., Indonesia, Turkey, U.S.A., Singapore and Qatar. He joined Mobil North Sea Limited in 1987 after two years with BP. A graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MA Hons), Andrew qualified as a barrister before becoming an in-house lawyer.
Previous appointments include: Chair of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group, memberships of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the LCIA’s board of directors, the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, the Advisory Council to the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University of London, the Advisory Board of the Turkish Commercial Law Review, Chair of the Steering Committee of the CCLS Energy Law Institute, Fellow of the Quraysh Institute.
In addition to serving as Chair of Emissary Partners (Emissary Holding Ltd), Andrew is also a Bencher of Middle Temple and Chair of Arbitration Sciences Limited.