Andrew Vincent

Partner

Andrew is a finance and restructuring specialist at Hamilton Locke. With an impressive background in top-tier financing transactions, Andrew’s practice is now focused on private credit financing transactions, coupled with a particular expertise in insolvency and restructuring.

Andrew has extensive experience advising on corporate and structured finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance as well as project finance. He is well known in the private credit market, counting Merricks, Qualitas, Argyle Square, iPartners, Privity, Banner Asset Management and others as clients. He is equally highly regarded in the restructuring space, working with insolvency practitioners including McgrathNicol, KordaMentha, PwC, Newpoint and Aston Chase over the same period. His front-end experience and knowledge, coupled with back-end insolvency/restructuring expertise, makes him an ideal operator in complex private lending deals, distressed or non-distressed. The combination of skills, at the intersection of private credit and insolvency, is what makes Andrew such a unique and sought-after lawyer in the market.

Andrew’s style is straight-talking and solutions-focused, but with a strong commercial mindset focused on speed and accuracy of execution. He has built a quality team around him, including two senior associates and five lawyers.

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Andrew worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia and King & Wood Mallesons in Australia, and Allen & Overy, LLP in the United Kingdom.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Finance; Restructuring and Insolvency; Real Property Finance; Corporation Finance; Leveraged Finance; Project Finance

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts – Monash University
Advanced Certification, Restructuring and Insolvency – Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA)
Admitted to practice in Victoria, Australia

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

In the past 12 months, Andrew’s matters include:

Advising Merricks on the restructuring of Coronam Group, later advising Newpoint on the receivership and related matters.
Advising a Melbourne-based private credit fund on the financing of an agricultural and horticultural product supplier, including with respect of both restructured debt and warrants.
Advising Banner Asset Management on its real property financing of two separate development sites in Victoria.
Advising KordaMentha as administrators of CommTel group, including a successful sale of the group via a deed of company arrangement.
Advising a bidder in the proposed sale and/or recapitalisation of Digital Classifieds group out of administration.
Advising iPartners on its financing of a logistics provider based in Melbourne and Sydney with a strong autonomous robotics focus.
Advising various directors on confidential safe harbour roles, including both listed and unlisted companies.
Advising Qualitas on the refinancing of a Brisbane mixed use real estate asset.
Advising Aston Chase Group as administrators of Napean River Dairy.
Advising McGrathNicol as receiver of Field Solutions group.