Andrew Petersen

Practice Areas

Leveraging more than 20 years of structured finance experience, Andrew Petersen guides clients in their private equity and private debt finance transactions involving borrowing, lending, restructurings, workouts, and enforcements. He founded the firm’s Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Advisory Group and counsels clients on ESG compliance and governance.

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