About

Andreas Knecht built the legal team at Partners Group Holding AG from a team of three to 25 over the last six years. Whilst doing so, he made several adjustments to the management structure, one of them being the introduction of regional reporting lines. The highlights of his career have revolved around financing and regulatory influence. This included assisting the global secondary placement of CHF600m worth of shares in Partners Group Holding AG. He also facilitated a CHF375mn senior loan credit facility. Andreas went on to lead negotiations with syndicate banks and successfully received financial markets regulatory licenses from FINMA in Switzerland, FCA in the UK, CSSF in Luxembourg and CVM in Brazil in the last six years. Andreas has maintained existing regulatory licenses from the SEC in the UK, the GFSC in Guernsey and the Bank of Italy in Italy. He comments on the financial industry, saying that it ‘has changed a lot globally which comes with new challenges for regulatory affairs lawyers and compliance controllers alike. This requires increasingly more management attention at the senior (GC) level beyond being a “good” lawyer’.