Andrew Vickery

Andrew (Andy) is a Director of Advance Global Australians. 

Andy Vickery is also a Partner at Linklaters in London, the Global Head of the Finance Division and a Member of the Executive Committee. He previously served as a member of the Partnership Board at Linklaters and the Head of Structured Finance. He started his legal career at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) in Brisbane and Sydney.

A specialist in structured finance, private credit and real estate finance, Andy has extensive experience in securitisation, warehouse financings, loan portfolio sales/acquisitions, sale-leasebacks and credit tenant leases and single property and property portfolio financings. Andy also leads Linklaters practices in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) transactions in the UK, Europe and further afield.

Andy regularly acts for the issuers and arrangers on covered bond programmes throughout the world, including those for RBS, Nationwide Building Society and Leeds Building Society in the UK, DnB Bank, the Sparebank 1 Alliance and SR Bank in Norway, OP Mortgage Bank in Finland, Alpha Bank in Greece, the NAB in Australia, BNZ in New Zealand and DBS and UOB in Singapore. He also leads on a number of key client relationships and is one of the firm’s bank sector leaders.

Andy has advised on some of the most complex and pioneering transactions in the market, including the first covered bond programmes in Singapore, the first UK electricity distribution network securitisation, and the first Scandinavian 144A covered bond programme.