Partner Profile
Andrew Abernethy
Andrew specialises in mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings.
His experience includes advising on international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, particularly cross-border transactions and a range of securities offerings.
Andrew has acted for both purchasers and sellers in acquisition and disposition transactions, including stock and asset sales recapitalisations, restructurings, joint ventures, partnerships, and other structured solutions.
Andrew has industry experience in electricity (lines companies) regulation and contracting, property fund work and is a key member of our Hotels, Tourism and Leisure practice.
Before joining Bell Gully, Andrew spent six years in the New York office of Shearman & Sterling, focussing on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and structured finance.
Andrew was named as a leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer in Asialaw's 2007 guide to Asia's leading lawyers, citing market feedback that "Andrew brings a very strong commercial perspective to transactions and has a natural flair for negotiation strategy". In 2007, Australasian Legal Business identified Andrew as a leading New Zealand lawyer in the energy and resources sector with clients commending the "great expertise he brings to all tasks".
Qualifications
LLB(Hons), Victoria University of Wellington
BA, University of Auckland
LLM, University of Chicago
Admitted
1994 New Zealand
1998 New York
International Career
- Shearman & Sterling, New York
1997-2003
