Simmons & Simmons

Projects.

Andrew Petry is a London-based partner and finance specialist in our Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure team. He has recent experience on transactions in the renewables (on and off-shore wind, solar, battery, green hydrogen, biomass and hydropower), PPPs, mining, waste, CCGT, telecoms (including masts, cables and datacentres), transport (including airports), accommodation (including hotels), gas transmission and LNG sectors.

Andrew's clients are financiers, project sponsors, borrowers, institutional investors and infrastructure funds and public sector entities. He advises on many kinds of finance transactions including multi-source project financings, IFI/DFI and ECA debt, warehouse facilities, bond financings, trade financings, working capital facilities, borrowing-base financings and sovereign debt.

Andrew is fluent in Dutch and German and regularly works in those languages. His practice is very international and in addition to UK deals he is currently advising on transactions in Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Benelux, Nordics, the Balkans and Latin America. He also co-chairs the Simmons & Simmons cross-border group that focusses on Infrastructure Fund Formations and Transactions.

Trained Clifford Chance; qualified England 1992 and Hong Kong 1995; Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong 1994-96; associate Freshfields, Hong Kong and London 1996-2001, partner Amsterdam and London 2001-08; partner Addleshaw Goddard, London 2008-2013.

German, Dutch.

Reading School; Pembroke College, Oxford University (1988 Jurisprudence 2.1); College of Law, Chester (1989).

Being a dad, rugby, history, running.