Practice Expertise
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Debt Funds
- Banking Regulation
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance
- Banking Regulation
- Corporate
- Debt Funds
- Fund Finance
- Investment Funds
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity Funds
- Real Estate Finance
- Regulatory
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Structured Finance and Securitisation View More
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
- Investment Funds
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity Funds
- Real Estate Finance
- Regulatory
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Structured Finance and Securitisation
Professional Career
On admission as an Attorney at Law of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago in 1995, Andrew took tenancy in chambers before moving to a well-established local firm of attorneys. In 1997, he moved to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to join Farrara George-Creque & Kerins and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. He then spent two years with KPMG in the BVI as in-house counsel for the firm’s trust companies. Andrew joined Carey Olsen in 2000 and was admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales in 2002. He was called to the Guernsey Bar in 2004 and made a partner in 2005.
Recent Experience- Guernsey Funds: an overview
- Guernsey Authorised Funds
- Guernsey Funds and the AIFMD
- Hedge Funds in Guernsey
- Types of Fund Vehicles used in Guernsey
- Funds expertise: Carey Olsen Guernsey
- Guernsey funds: practical matters to bear in mind
- Table of Guernsey Fund Structures
- Migrating a company into Guernsey
- Guernsey Funds: registered or authorised - which to choose?
- Guernsey Property Unit Trusts (GPUTs)
- Due capacity and enforceability opinions - avoiding unnecessary completion confusion
- Amendments to the BVI Business Companies Act
- Guernsey and ATAD III
- Carey Olsen increases market share as leading legal adviser to Guernsey funds industry
- Carey Olsen sponsors 12th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium 2023
- Carey Olsen attending MIPIM 2023
- Buying out minority shareholders in Guernsey companies
- Carey Olsen is keynote sponsor of the Guernsey Funds Forum 2023
- Why choose Guernsey? Special considerations for Australian promoters
- A round-up of the recent updates affecting investment funds in Guernsey
- Carey Olsen sponsors the 2023 Global Leadership Summit
- Changes to the requirements for individuals acting as a director
- Quarterly round-up of the recent investment funds updates in Guernsey
- Guernsey's new Director Registration Regime
- Carey Olsen sponsors junior Guernsey golfer on mini tour
- Carey Olsen attending SuperInvestor 2023
- Carey Olsen lawyers recognised in latest IFLR1000 2023 rankings
- Carey Olsen lawyers recognised in latest IFLR1000 2023 rankings
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