Choate, Hall & Stewart

Finance and Restructuring

Partner

For over 25 years, Andy Hickey has helped clients to maximize the return on their lending and equity investments across a range of industries and products. Andy also represents tier-one investment banks and institutional investors in public and private debt and equity issuances. Over his long career at Choate, where he started as a summer associate in 1997, Andy has held positions on the Hiring Committee, the Compensation Committee, and has been elected by his Partners to serve on Choate’s Executive Committee for two separate terms. Andy also served one term on the Executive Committee as an appointee.

Andy’s lending experience includes representing financial institutions and private credit funds in complex multi-tranche financial transactions, unitranche transactions, mezzanine and second lien transactions, Holdco Note and preferred stock transactions and other junior and senior capital investments. Andy also serves as designated underwriters and designated purchaser counsel to several public issuers in the utility industry and has represented underwriters and initial purchasers in countless capital market transactions and private placements with aggregate proceeds exceeding multiple billions of dollars. Andy is known for his collaborative approach with all stakeholders on a given transaction and is recognized for his pragmatic ability to find workable solutions to complex legal issues, all in an effort to get transactions closed quickly and efficiently.

Andy’s finance clients include, Avante Capital Partners, Siguler Guff, Kayne Anderson, Brookside Capital Partners, Star Mountain Capital, Barings, Eldridge, and Falcon Investments. Andy’s investment Banking clients include, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Securities, J.P. Morgan Securities, Morgan Stanley, MUFG, PNC Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets, U.S. Bancorp, BNY Mellon Capital Markets, Wells Fargo Securities, Mizuho, Citi, Siebert Williams Shank, and Ramirez &. Co. Andy serves as designated underwriters/purchaser counsel for Eversource Energy, The Connecticut Light and Power Company, NSTAR Electric Company, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, Avista Corp., NSTAR Gas Company, Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts, Aquarion Water Company, and Yankee Gas Services Company.

Andy is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School, where he was the Lead Articles Editor of the Law Review. Andy was also the third-year trial Competition Champion, a National Finalist in the Kaufman Securities Law Moot Court Competition at Fordham University Law School and was the recipient of the Harold B. Goodwin Jr. Best Trial Advocate Award at Suffolk Law School.

Suffolk University Law School, JD (1998) cum laude, Lead Articles Editor and Member, Suffolk University Law Review Syracuse University, BA (1994) cum laude