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30 FINSBURY CIRCUS, LONDON, EC2M 7DT, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7628 7576
Fax:
Fax 0870 608 9390
DX:
33856 FINSBURY SQUARE
Web:
www.devonshires.com
Email:

Andrew Cowan

Tel:
Work +44 20 7880 4350
Email:
Devonshires

Work Department

Banking/governance department.

Position

Partner and head of finance, leading the housing association finance unit which has negotiated over £3bn of housing association funding since 1988 from the stock markets, banks and building societies; acts for funders and over 180 housing associations based over England and Wales and a group association borrowing vehicle; advises on governance and group structures, local authority stock transfers and PFI.

Career

Articled Hobson Audley; qualified 1989; Trowers & Hamlins 1990-91; Devonshires 1991; partner 1993; regular speaker on housing finance, group structures and housing strategies, and credit adviser to a charity on Latin American and Indian loan guarantee schemes.

Languages

Spanish.

Education

University of East Anglia (1986 LLB Hons).

Leisure

Backpacking, football, swimming, Latin America.

Practice Areas

Banking (non-contentious); International capital markets; Social housing

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