Latham & Watkins Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise

Andrew Bishop, as Local Chair of the firm’s Finance Department in Asia, has built a team that advises global market-leading funds and strategic investors on complex financings throughout the Asia-Pacific market.

Mr. Bishop delivers strategic and commercially driven counsel to private equity, venture, and credit funds, as well as other institutional and strategic investors on a range of cross-border finance and high-value mandates. He regularly helps clients navigate:

• • Leveraged acquisitions, including back-leverage financings
  • Take-private and real estate finance transactions
  • Bank/bond and bridge finance transactions
  • Margin loans
  • Subscription and capital call financings
  • Refinancing and recapitalization matters
  • Restructuring matters

Mr. Bishop has been resident in Asia for more than a decade, so has developed an intricate understanding of international legal regimes in the region. Drawing on qualifications and experience practicing in London and Hong Kong, he regularly helps clients execute market-defining transactions spanning Asia, Europe, and the United States, including novel and precedent-setting financings in Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.