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Andrew Watson is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in its London office. He is the head of the London Banking & Finance Group, where his practice focuses on project finance. He also has extensive experience in the areas of telecoms finance, restructuring, privatisation and all types of debt financing.
Andrew has acted for numerous sponsors, international banks and multi-national corporations throughout the world. He has advised on complex financing arrangements in jurisdictions where novel and unprecedented mechanisms have had to be devised by working closely with financiers and local lawyers. Examples of such transactions include the first major project finance transaction in Greece (the Athens Ring Road) and the first major international financing in post-war Iraq.
Andrew has advised on project financings throughout the world including the Thessaloniki Submerged Tunnel Project and the Korinth-Tripoli-Kalamata Motorway Project (both in Greece), the HSL Zuid High Speed Rail Link PPP (the Netherlands) and the Iraqna GSM Mobile Telephone Project (Iraq).
Andrew is head of our London Projects Group and of our Central and Eastern Europe Practice Group.
Education
University of Western Australia, J.D., 1989
University of Western Australia, LL.B., 1989
University of Western Australia, B. Comm, 1989 | 