Andrew Petersen

• Counseling clients on loan defaults and restructuring of loan positions including standstill and forbearance agreements throughout the UK and continental Europe. 
• Counseling clients in restructuring debt and capital market positions throughout the UK and continental Europe. 
• Negotiating credit facilities for numerous asset management companies.
• Advising clients with corporate refinance facilities and new bond refinances and restructuring of global companies involving significant Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) jurisdictions.
• Counseling clients on loan originations involving mixed asset classes of hotels, data centers, supermarkets, business parks, and offices.

Andrew Petersen represents clients in real estate private equity and private debt matters with a focus on UK and European real estate finance and asset finance. His clients include private equity houses, financial institutions, noteholder groups, arrangers, bond issuers, lenders, property investors, alternative capital providers, asset-based lenders, sovereign wealth funds, mezzanine debt funds, and listed property companies. He advises on loan-to-own distressed opportunities, borrowings, new lendings, restructurings such as loan defaults and standstill arrangements, consensual workouts, and enforcements of debt and equity positions.

Working closely with special situations teams in positions involving debt capital market issues, he provides strategic advice to loan servicers, sellers of loans and mortgage-backed securities, investors owning or acquiring stressed or distressed assets, and risk retention issues.

Andrew has spent time in the U.S. and has unique crossover experience acting for investors purchasing, selling, and managing CMBS, B notes and mezzanine loans, and private debt funds making real estate loans, both in the U.S. and Europe.

Andrew has been recognized in Chambers UK since 2012 for his experience in real estate finance law.

Bar Admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• BPP University (QLTT, 2006)
• Somerville College (B.C.L., 1998)
• Inns of Court School of Law (BVC, 1997)
• University of Wales, Swansea (LL.B., 1996)

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