Andrew has a long and distinguished career as a corporate attorney. With nearly 20 years of sophisticated financial products and corporate experience, Andrew’s practice focuses on legal issues related to structured finance and securitized products, including collateral loan obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities, residential mortgage-backed securities, and asset-backed securities. He is particularly known for his extensive work related to special out-of-court restructuring situations involving some of Royal Bank of Scotland’s largest and most complex legacy exposures.
Before joining FSPM, Andrew served in a number of senior legal roles in the legal department of the U.S. capital markets division of Royal Bank of Scotland, including heading legal coverage in the U.S. for structured credit to Latin America, structured finance and non-core markets. Prior to Royal Bank of Scotland, Andrew worked in private practice at three international law firms in New York City serving as a partner in the corporate law practices of McKee Nelson, and Fried, Frank, Harris, Schriver & Jacobson LLP, and as an associate with Proskauer Rose LLP.
Andrew received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994, and his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He is a member of the New York Bar Association.
Andrew is currently seconded to a client on a full-time basis.