Andrew Bechtel

Based in the Firm’s London office, Andrew Bechtel is a Partner in the Banking and Credit Practice and a key member of the Firm’s Alternative Capital and Private Credit group. His practice focuses on advising leading private equity sponsors, corporates and lenders in connection with high value cross-border leveraged and acquisition financings (including take private transactions and multi instrument bank/bond structures) in addition to advising leading sponsors and credit funds with respect to structured credit solutions and subordinated debt/equity investments across a wide range of sectors and products, including direct credit, real estate finance, loan on loan financings, preferred equity investments, holdco financings, convertible instruments and emergency liquidity lines.  

At Simpson Thacher Andrew has represented a variety of leading private equity sponsors and alternative capital providers on a host of market leading financing transactions including acting for:

• Blackstone in its financing related to its announced tender offer and subsequent related transactions to take Infocom Corporation private

• Cerdia in its senior secured notes offering

• Haveli Investments in its recapitalization investment in M-Files Corporation

• CVC in its acquisition and the related acquisition financing of M-Group Services

• Melrose plc in various corporate financings

• Five Arrows Managers LLP in the financing of its acquisition of Rimes Technologies from EQT

• Apax Partners and Warburg Pincus LLC, in the acquisition financing of T-Mobile Netherlands Holding B.V. from Deutsche Telekom AG and Tele2 AB

• Blackstone in its agreement to acquire Civica, a global leader in public sector software solutions, from the Partners Group

• Blackstone portfolio company Desotec NV in its financing of the acquisition of Evoqua Water Technologies

• Clariant AG in its agreement to acquire Lucas Meyer Cosmetics from International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.

• EQT and PSP in financing elements of the acquisition of Radius Global Infrastructure

• H.I.G. Capital, LLC in its acquisition financing of Cesar di Barbarossa Enio e F.lli S.r.l., Gruppo SDA S.r.l.

• KKR in its Dutch take private acquisition financing of the Accell group

• KKR in its acquisition financing of the April group

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher Andrew’s experience includes acting for:

• Private equity sponsors including Advent International, Apax, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Capvest, Carlyle, Cranemere International, General Atlantic, Goldman Sachs, HIG, KKR, Montagu, Sun Capital, TDR, Terra Firma and Warburg Pincus in a series of market leading acquisition financings throughout the U.K., the U.S. and Europe and across an array of sectors and products
• Leading corporates including Eircom, Flint Group, Molson Corrs, Salt Group, Unifrutti and Teekay across a variety of corporate financings
• Leading financial institutions including Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS in a number of leading acquisition financings, corporate financings and real estate financings
• Investment funds and private capital providers including Bain Capital Credit, Beachpoint Capital, Blackstone Credit, Canyon, GIC, Goldman Sachs PIA, Hayfin, H/2 Capital, Oakhill, Oaktree and Pemberton in relation to targeted debt and equity solutions across the capital structure and restructurings/distressed financings

Andrew received his Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Queensland, College of Law in 2011. He received a Juris Doctor with First Class Honours from Bond University in 2010 and a Bachelors of Commerce (Finance) from the University of Queensland in 2007.  Andrew is qualified in England and Wales having first being admitted as a solicitor in Queensland, Australia (not currently practising).