Practice Expertise

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Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Banking Regulation
  • Corporate
  • Debt Funds
  • Fund Finance
  • Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
  • Investment Funds
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Regulatory
  • Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Structured Finance and Securitisation
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Profile

Andrew has significant experience in and is recognised both locally and internationally for investment and finance transactions across all entity types. Andrew has specialist experience in the structuring and establishment of open and closed-ended investment funds and the credit and structured finance products related to them. In particular he has built an enviable reputation in his core expertise of private equity fund formation having advised a range of global investment houses as well as new managers on fund establishment, investment structuring, asset acquisitions and disposals and regulatory issues. Andrew's banking and finance expertise compliments his investment funds core practice and covers a range of credit types including capital call facilities, leveraged financing and asset finance. He has acted for global banking institutions and alternative credit providers as well as institutional borrowers.



Andrew is instructed by leading UK, European and international law firms and financial institutions, and is recognised by global legal directories and publications.



As a qualified British Virgin Islands lawyer Andrew also advises on the above in relation to British Virgin Islands law from his base in Guernsey.  


Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Banking Regulation
  • Corporate
  • Debt Funds
  • Fund Finance
  • Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
  • Investment Funds
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Regulatory
  • Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Structured Finance and Securitisation

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
Recent Experience Guernsey Funds: an overviewGuernsey Authorised FundsGuernsey Funds and the AIFMDHedge Funds in GuernseyTypes of Fund Vehicles used in GuernseyGuernsey funds: practical matters to bear in mindTable of Guernsey Fund StructuresGuernsey Funds: registered or authorised - which to choose?Guernsey Property Unit Trusts (GPUTs)Due capacity and enforceability opinions - avoiding unnecessary completion confusionBuying out minority shareholders in Guernsey companiesWhy choose Guernsey? Special considerations for Australian promotersA round-up of the recent updates affecting investment funds in Guernsey Changes to the requirements for individuals acting as a directorQuarterly round-up of the recent investment funds updates in GuernseyGuernsey's new Director Registration RegimeCarey Olsen is keynote sponsor of the Guernsey Funds Forum 2023Carey Olsen sponsors the 2023 Global Leadership SummitCarey Olsen attending SuperInvestor 2023Carey Olsen sponsors junior Guernsey golfer on mini tourCarey Olsen lawyers recognised in latest IFLR1000 2023 rankings Carey Olsen sponsors 13th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium 2024Guernsey investment funds update - Q4 2023Carey Olsen attending MIPIM 2024Guernsey funds and the AIFMD 2Guernsey: an ideal domicile for continuation funds



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