Andrew Perkins Partner

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Andrew is head of the finance group. He acts for alternative lenders, credit funds, banks and financial institutions on a wide range of financing transactions.

Andrew advises banks, alternative lenders and credit funds on all aspects of cross-border and domestic leveraged financings, fund finance and speciality finance.

Andrew has a strong presence in the alternative credit space, advising fund managers on subscription lines and leverage facilities for their credit funds, advising these funds, and other alternative debt providers, on their leverage financing portfolio acquisitions and other credit investments.

Expertise

Recent work

Permira Credit

Advising Permira Credit, on facilities provided to Cadence Equity Partners in order to finance the acquisition of leading UK connectivity specialist SCCI Group Limited.

Ares Management

Advising funds managed by Ares Management, a global alternative investment manager, on facilities provided to Titan Wealth Holdings in connection with a sale of the Titan asset management business.

Quilam Capital

Advising Quilam Capital on strategic partnership with Wafra Capital Partners.

Quilam Capital

Advising speciality finance provider Quilam Capital on its debt investment in the fintech business Updraft.

Goldman Sachs Private Capital Group

Advising Goldman Sachs Private Capital Group on a number of deals across the leverage finance, structured finance and specialty finance markets.

Shawbrook Bank

Advising Shawbrook Bank on borrowing base facilities made available to First Stop Loans, 118 118 money and MSP Capital.

Cross Ocean Partners

Advising Cross Ocean Partners on a range of credit facilities.

Hayfin Capital

Advising Hayfin Capital on second lien facilities to refinance a sponsor backed buy-out in the healthcare sector.

Cordet Capital

Advising Cordet Capital on a number of leveraged and acquisition financings.

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"Andrew Perkins is a highly skilled lawyer with a wealth of experience. He takes a pro-active role on deals, is responsive and provides clear, commercial advice."

The Legal 500 2023

"Andrew Perkins is an incredibly strong lender-side counsel, with the right mix of commerciality and technical skill."

Chambers UK 2022

"Andrew Perkins is technically superb, generous with his time and always ensures his clients understand what the key legal issues are and what makes those issues so important."

The UK Legal 500 2022

"He is sympathetic to clients’ needs and excellent technically. He has all the time in the world for his clients, he makes us feel like he is always there and he is very supportive."

Chambers UK 2022

"Andrew is fantastic to work with; he is strong technically yet able to communicate in layman terms. He is a calm and reassuring presence."

Chambers UK 2021

"He's unflappable, very detail-oriented and not frightened to roll up his sleeves."

Chambers UK 2021

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Private credit continuation funds: a developing frontier for secondary transactions?

Andrew Perkins, Jamie Macpherson 29 Dec 2023
In this article, the authors consider the use of continuation funds in private credit by comparing and contrasting their adoption with increasingly popular private equity...
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Chambers and Partners Acquisition Finance 2023 Global Practice Guide

Kirstie Hutchinson, Jamie Macpherson, Malcolm Hitching, Andrew Perkins 27 Jun 2023
Kirstie Hutchinson, Jamie Macpherson, Malcolm Hitching and Andrew Perkins have contributed to the 2023 edition of the Acquisition Finance Chambers Global Practice Guide.
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Take private transactions: financing

Andrew Perkins, Jamie Macpherson 05 Oct 2020
Building on Parts 1 and 2 of our series on take private transactions, this Part 3 examines the financing of takeovers of listed companies by PE sponsors (P2Ps).
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