Andrew Vickery > Linklaters LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Linklaters LLP
ONE SILK STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 8HQ
England

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Andy is Head of the firm’s Structured Finance Group.

He is a specialist in structured finance and real estate finance. He has extensive experience in securitisations, warehouse financings, loan portfolio sales/acquisitions, sale-leasebacks and credit tenant leases and single property and property portfolio financings. Andy also leads the firm’s practices in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) transactions in the UK, Europe and further afield. Andy regularly acts for the issuers and arrangers on covered bond programmes throughout the world, including those for RBS, Nationwide Building Society and Leeds Building Society in the UK, DnB Bank, the Sparebank 1 Alliance and KLP in Norway, OP Mortgage Bank in Finland, Alpha Bank in Greece, the NAB in Australia, BNZ in New Zealand and DBS and UOB in Singapore. He also leads on a number of key client relationships and is one of the firm’s bank sector leaders.

Career

2009 – to date Partner, Linklaters London
2003 – 2009 Associate, Linklaters London
2001 – 2003 Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
2000 – 2001 Law Graduate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
2000 – Articled Clerk, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Brisbane

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales

Law Society of New South Wales

European Covered Bond Council

Commercial Real Estate Finance Council

Education

1995 – 1999 Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, LL.B (Hons)
1995 – 1999 Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, B.A.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Securitisation

(Leading individuals)

Andrew VickeryLinklaters LLP

Linklaters LLP has one of the deepest benches in London for securitisation, and one of the broadest practices in terms of deal types and asset classes. It handles deals backed by novel assets, as well as  NPL, RMBS, CMBS, CLO, credit card and auto loan transactions. The firm has ‘top team with strength through the experience levels, is always well organised, and runs deals smoothly, being ahead of their peers in terms of planning a transaction and delivering on time‘. Mark Nuttall and standout securitisation partner Julian Davies lead the practice. Davies led a team that acted for Sixth Street Partners on its agreement with Real Madrid C.F. and sports company Legends on a deal backed by stadium operations at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Adam Fogarty focuses on the acquisition, disposal and financing through the public and provide securitisation markets of financial assets including residential and commercial mortgages. He worked with newly promoted partner Lucy Sidey to assist Pacific Investment Management Company LLC on the acquisition of a portfolio of €1.32bn of non-performing loans secured over real estate in Cyprus from Hellenic Bank. Andrew Vickery played a key role in advising advised TwentyFour Asset Management on a £300m UK buy-to-let RMBS. Also recommended are the ‘super-focussedAlexander Shopov; RMBS, ABS, covered bonds, and utility securitisation partner Reza Taylor; Thomas Quoroll, who is ‘unflappable and great at managing deals‘; and newly promoted partner Aditi Srivastava.