Andrew Traynor

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Andrew Traynor is based in the Irish office where he is a partner and co-head of the Finance and Capital Markets team. Andrew’s principal practice areas are finance and capital markets, securitisation, insurance-linked securities (ILS), distressed investment, finance, private equity and restructurings.

Andrew advises issuers, managers, sponsors, arrangers, trustee houses and agents, financial institutions and investors on a broad range of finance and capital markets transactions (both public and private) with a particular focus on debt capital markets, securitisation, insurance-linked securities (ILS), structured credit, distressed investment, restructurings and work-outs.

Andrew also provides Irish legal and structuring advice on a variety of bespoke, tax efficient financing and investment platforms. He regularly acts for leading hedge funds, private equity outfits, credit opportunity funds and other market participants with respect to their joint-ventures, acquisition, servicing and/or disposal of non-performing loan portfolios, investments and other receivables in Europe and Asia.

Career

Prior to joining Walkers, Andrew was a member of the finance group of a leading Irish law firm.​