Andrew is the head of the banking and finance department and a member of the firm's board of management.
His expertise covers debt capital markets and the full range of transactional banking, with a particular focus on leveraged finance, corporate finance, restructurings, and other complex lending transactions.
His clients include both lenders and borrowers on domestic and international financing matters. Andrew has also acted on many significant financings, including the few public private partnership transactions that have occurred in New Zealand.
- IFLR1000 Banking & Project Finance 2012 - Leading Lawyer
- IFLR1000 Capital Markets 2012 - Leading Lawyer
- Asia Pacific Legal 500 Banking & Finance 2011 - Leading Lawyer
- Chambers Global Banking & Finance 2011 - Leading Lawyer
- The International Who's Who Legal Capital Markets 2011 - Leading Lawyer
- PLC Which Lawyer? Finance 2010 - Leading Lawyer
Examples of Work
- Westpac - partial demerger of the institutional banking business of the New Zealand branch of Westpac Banking Corporation, involving the transfer of approximately $6.2 billion customer loans and $5.8 billion customer deposits to Westpac New Zealand
- Auckland Council - $500 million secured commercial paper programme, $500 million bond programme, and $700 million syndicated standby facility (the first syndicated facility for a local authority in New Zealand)
- Auckland Transition Agency - transfer of the merging local authorities' debts and bond obligations to Auckland Council, and new security structure for Auckland Council following the merger
- Auckland City Council - $150 million listed bond issue (the first listing of the securities of a local authority in New Zealand) and $350 million listed bond issue (the largest bond issue by a local authority in New Zealand)
- Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ) - United State private debt placement, wholesale issue of medium-term notes (MTNs), and accession by New Zealand issuer to the Australian group's US$2 billion wholesale euro-MTN programme
- Spotless Group - private placement in the United States of US$160 million notes
- GE Capital New Zealand - $2 billion commercial paper programme
- Sanctuary Group - refinance of the Group's Australian and New Zealand bank facility and mezzanine funding
- Fisher & Paykel Finance - $400 million receivables-backed master trust securitisation programme
- New Zealand Comfort Group (then Sleepyhead Manufacturing) - syndicated facility to acquire the Dunlop Foams and Sleepmaker business in Australia and to refinance existing facilities
- Numerous private equity financings
- Auckland City Council - Britomart above-ground and interchange projects, and public private partnership for the Vector Arena (an $80 million 12,00-seat stadium delivered on a PPP/BOOT basis)
Other Credentials
- Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance - Member
- Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand - Member
- Banking and Financial Services Law Association - Member
