Andrew Rotenberg has more than 22 years of experience in acting for lenders and borrowers on cross-border and multicurrency financings, including cash flow, secured and asset-based loans, and securitizations. He advises creditors (including bondholders, bondholder committees, and distressed investors) and debtors in complex out-of-court multijurisdictional workouts and financial restructurings. Many of these transactions include complex structures, intercreditor arrangements, and multiple tranches of debt. Andrew's clients, which include commercial and investment banks, finance companies, institutional investors, private equity funds, hedge funds, and alternative investment vehicles and public and private companies, rely on his substantial experience with and knowledge of the legal systems and workout procedures of more than 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Andrew has advised on numerous complex cross-border secured financings, including financings for Dana Corp., Doncasters Group, Exide Corporation, International Automotive Components Group, and JohnsonDiversey. He led a team of attorneys advising the mezzanine bondholders in connection with the restructuring of Autodis. He has counseled lenders and bondholders in the Clinton Cards, Nybron, Thomson, and Waterford Wedgwood restructurings, among others. He has advised clients in China on the structuring of letter of credit facilities in connection with the acquisition of public companies.
Andrew is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Massachusetts Bar, among other organizations. He is also a member of the executive advisory committee of the European chapter of the Commercial Finance Association. Andrew is committed to improving children's education and is chair of governors of a local primary school.
Experience
Speaking Engagements
- May 8, 2014
Jones Day/Debtwire Middle Market Conference - October 27, 2010
C5 21st Edition Commercial Loans Conference - March 19, 2010
Euromoney 12th Annual Syndicated Loans Conference - November 18, 2009
Euromoney 8th Annual Distressed Debt Conference - November 18, 2008
11th Euro Finance Week - July 12, 2007
Investing in Distressed Debt 2007
- The University of Chicago (J.D. 1995); Dartmouth College (B.A. cum laude 1992)
- England & Wales and Massachusetts
The Legal 500 UK — cited in the area of asset-based lending: noted for having ‘relatively high market visibility,’ being ‘very well-known in the market,’ and for being regularly involved in highly structured cross-border mandates in connection with new money financings, refinancings, and restructurings (2019)
- French