Andrew Wilkinson > Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP
110 FETTER LANE
LONDON
EC4A 1AY
England
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Career

Andrew is the senior partner in Weil’s European Restructuring team and Co-Head of the London Restructuring practice. He has over 30 years restructuring experience as a lawyer in private practice and banker advising bondholder groups, other lenders and large corporates and governments on debt restructuring. His experience includes many significant public, creditor and private company restructurings across Europe, representing debtors on major restructurings, working on securitisations and structured deals, financial institution restructurings and insolvencies, and advising government bodies and financial institutions. He pioneered the use of schemes of arrangement for high yield bond restructurings in Europe. Before joining Weil, Andrew was European Head and co-Head of Restructuring at Goldman Sachs.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency

(Hall of Fame)

Andrew WilkinsonWeil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP

With numerous ‘highly technical and first-class lawyers’ in its ranks, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP excels in providing ‘high-quality advice on complex situations’ for debtors, creditors and office holders, where it often works in a collegiate fashion with its acclaimed leveraged finance and high-yield practices. Co-headed by the ‘very impressive’ Neil Devaney and Andrew Wilkinson, the team excels at advising on sophisticated cross-border mandates involving layers of debt throughout the capital structure, and is adept at implementing restructurings through European processes as well as via US Chapter 11. Lois Deasey has a vibrant bondholder practice in particular, with both par and secondary investors benefitting from her ‘commercial and pragmatic’ advice on distressed and special situations. Gemma Sage is adept at handling restructurings and formal insolvency procedures for both debtors and creditors and is also a key member of the team, as is Mark Lawford, who is noted for his expertise at handling both out-of-court restructurings and insolvency litigation.