Andrew S. Holmes is a partner in the Structured Finance Group within the Business Section. He has represented U.S., foreign and multinational investors, lessors, lenders, owners, manufacturers and arrangers in connection with all stages of international asset-based finance. Primarily his practice has included leases (finance, operating, leveraged, single investor, sale/leaseback and synthetic), asset-backed loans, portfolio transfers, securitizations, workouts and project finance involving all types of transportation, telecommunication, energy, construction, mining, industrial, printing and environmental equipment and facilities.
Mr. Holmes also has substantial experience representing owners, lessors, lenders, government guarantors and credit enhancement providers with regard to originations, transfers of interests, refinancings and workouts of project finance and development transactions, relating to energy and power production (gas, coal, culm, fuel additive and bio-mass-fired plants), the environment (catlytic converter and waste/recycling facilities), and U.S. and foreign manufacture (cable polymer, electrolytic galvanizing, continuous caster steel manufacturer, a Mexico auto parts producer, and Austria plastic mold injection operations).
Mr. Holmes received his A.B., with distinction, from Princeton University in 1977, where he was a National Merit Scholar and recipient of an IBM Watson Scholarship. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981 and served as senior editor on the Virginia Journal of International Law and on the Moot Court Board.