He has a wide range of experience focusing on acquisition and loan finance, real estate finance, project finance, PFI/PPP, secured, non-secured and syndicated lending, Islamic finance, derivatives and restructuring.

He joined the firm from the London office of a leading niche UK commercial law firm where he was a partner in the bank finance team. Prior to that, Andrew was a senior lawyer at a leading international law firm for six years. He has worked in Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Germany, the latter included time spent on secondment at Commerzbank.

Representative transactions include:

• Acting for ABN AMRO as arranger, agent, offshore security agent and lender in respect of a pre-export credit facility agreement provided to JSC "Kazzinc";
• Acting for Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Dresdner Bank AG, Morgan Stanley International Limited and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the £8.2 billion plus €2 billion financing for the all-cash takeover of FTSE 100 company, BOC Group plc, by the German-based industrial giant Linde AG. This deal created the world’s largest industrial gas group. It is the largest overseas acquisition by a German company in four years and one of the largest of the many recent takeovers of UK businesses by non-UK firms;
• Acting for a major investment bank on the financing of the buy-out of the stakes of partners in an iron ore project;
• Acting for an investment bank on various financings secured on shares in listed companies;
• Acting for Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse in connection with a €150 million Revolving Credit Facility and a €800 million High Yield Note issue to refinance Grohe Group’s existing €900 million Term and RCF Agreement.; and

• Acting for OCBC in connection with the ¥10.8 billion syndicated loan led by OCBC to JSC Bank CenterCredit with OCBC and Raiffeisen Zentralbank as MLAs.
  

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, admitted 1990

Education
LL.B., London School of Economics, Hons, 1987
Law Society Finals, Chancery Lane, 1988

Languages
English, French, Spanish

Citizenship
British