Capital Markets

Andy is Head of the firm’s Structured Finance Group.

He is a specialist in structured finance and real estate finance. He has extensive experience in securitisations, warehouse financings, loan portfolio sales/acquisitions, sale-leasebacks and credit tenant leases and single property and property portfolio financings. Andy also leads the firm’s practices in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) transactions in the UK, Europe and further afield. Andy regularly acts for the issuers and arrangers on covered bond programmes throughout the world, including those for RBS, Nationwide Building Society and Leeds Building Society in the UK, DnB Bank, the Sparebank 1 Alliance and KLP in Norway, OP Mortgage Bank in Finland, Alpha Bank in Greece, the NAB in Australia, BNZ in New Zealand and DBS and UOB in Singapore. He also leads on a number of key client relationships and is one of the firm’s bank sector leaders.

2009 - to date Partner, Linklaters London 2003 - 2009 Associate, Linklaters London 2001 - 2003 Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney 2000 - 2001 Law Graduate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney 2000 - Articled Clerk, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Brisbane

Law Society of England and Wales

Law Society of New South Wales

European Covered Bond Council

Commercial Real Estate Finance Council

1995 - 1999 Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, LL.B (Hons) 1995 - 1999 Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, B.A.