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Andrew V. Petersen  Partner
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Areas of Practice • Representative Experience • Professional Background • Professional/Civic Activities • Speaking Engagements • Education • Additional Information

Areas of Practice

Andrew Petersen is a finance partner in the London office. He concentrates his practice advising financial institutions and private equity funds on debt and equity lending, restructurings, workouts and enforcement of debt and equity positions. He works closely with business support, restructuring and litigation teams in relation to positions involving capital market issues, providing strategic advice to loan servicers and sellers of loans and mortgage-backed securities and investors owning or acquiring troubled or distressed assets. Mr. Petersen has spent a period of time in the US and has unique crossover experience acting for investors purchasing, selling and managing CMBS, B notes and mezzanine loans, both in the US and in Europe.

Mr. Petersen is active in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) and has been a CREFC-Europe Board of Governor since 2007.

Mr. Petersen was recently named one of Institutional Investor News' 10 Rising Stars of Securitization and is described as "client-focused, commercial and personable" in the latest edition of the Legal 500 and as someone "you can count on for innovative solutions" (Legal 500, 2010).

Representative Experience
Mr. Petersen has provided advice on over 180 transactions with a combined value of around £18.5 billion. In addition Mr. Petersen has carried out over 30 transactions acquiring secondary debt in AB Structures throughout the UK and continental Europe in the last 24 months.

Professional Background

Andrew qualified as a lawyer in 1997 and joined the firm in March 2007 from an international law firm.

Professional/Civic Activities
  • American Bar Association (Associate Member)
  • The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn (Member)

  • Solicitors Regulation Authority: Higher Rights of Audience

Speaking Engagements
  • "Commercial Real Estate Finance: The Way Forward," CREFC - Europe Spring Conference 2010, April 20, 2010
  • "Service Providers Forum," CREFC - Europe Spring Conference 2010, April 19, 2010
  • "Swaps within European Commercial Real Estate Finance Transactions: Everything you Need to Know," CMSA-Europe After Work Seminar, November 18, 2009
  • "Special Servicing - Lessons learned from the trenches," CMSA - Europe Annual Conference 2009, October 22, 2009
  • "Global Crisis, Change and Perspective: Today's International Finance and Investment Markets," K&L Gates Global Seminar, May 6, 2009
  • "Loan Level Performance," CMSA - Europe Spring Conference 2009, March 30, 2009
  • "Global Crisis, Change, Perspective: A look at today's International Finance and Investment markets," K&L Gates Global Seminar, December 2, 2008
  • "Real Estate Finance: Challenges Ahead," LexisNexis Butterworths Webinar, November 25, 2008
  • "Structured Syndications," CMSA-Europe After Work Seminar, August 12, 2008
  • "Liquidity Issues: Getting Back to Business," K&L Gates Breakfast Banking Seminar, May 14, 2008
  • "Demystifying CMBS," K&L Gates Breakfast Banking Seminar, May 9, 2007
  • "Cutting Edge Trends in Foreign Real Estate Investment," Joint Fall CLE Meeting Boston ABA
  • "Use of Non-U.S. REITs and Other Investment Vehicles," Joint Fall CLE Meeting Boston ABA

Education
  • Qualified Lawyer Transfer Test, BPP Law School (2006)
  • B.C.L., Somerville College, Oxford (1998)
  • Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law (1997)
  • LL.B., University of Wales, Swansea (1996) (Hons)
Additional Information

Andrew has published numerous articles on finance-related issues and is the general editor of the definitive book dedicated to Real Estate Finance published by LexisNexis Butterworths, 2008.

  • "Securitisation Reporting: how to regulate and alienate people," Butterworth's Journal & International Banking and Finance Law (2009) 5 JIBFL 264
  • Chapter K: "Derivatives," Practical Lending and Security Precedents, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, December 2008 (Contributor)
  • Text Book: “Real Estate Finance: Law, Regulation & Practice,” LexisNexis Butterworths, November 2008
  • “Finance: Derivatives to the rescue,” Legal Week, September 18, 2008 (Editor)
  • “Property derivatives come of age” Butterworth's New Law Journal, (2008) NLJ 1139
  • "The synthetic toolbox: unlocking liquidity,” Butterworth's Journal of International Banking and Finance Law (2007) 8 JIBFL 461
  • “A New Dawn: CMBS and Basel II,” Legal Week, July 12, 2007
  • Text Book: “Commercial Mortgage backed Securitisation: Developments in the European Market,” Sweet & Maxwell, 2006 (Editor)
  • “The Major Issues Facing the Successful Introduction of the U.K. REIT,” Henry Stewart’s Briefing in Real Estate Finance
  • “Property Investment Funds: A Realty Opportunity? Parts 1 and 2,” Butterworth's Journal of International Banking and Finance Law
  • “Should Financial Assistance Provisions Hinder Enterprising Transactions,” Butterworth's Journal of International Banking and Finance Law
  • "Taking and Enforcing Security Over Authorised Persons,” Sweet & Maxwell Ltd’s Journal of International Banking Law
  • “The Economic and Commercial Benefit of Corporate Guarantees - An International Comparison,” Butterworth's Journal of International Banking and Finance Law


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