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Senior Associate

Mayer Brown is a global legal services provider advising clients across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. We offer local market knowledge combined with global reach.

ANDREW O. VOUZIERS is a partner in the Chicago office of Mayer Brown and serves as the Co-Head of the Americas Lending group. Andrew represents investment banks, direct lenders, private equity and financial sponsors, hedge funds, commercial banks, insurance companies, and private and public companies in structuring, negotiating, documenting and administering all phases of complex financial transactions. Andrew’s practice focuses on: •LEVERAGED AND SYNDICATED FINANCE, including cross-border and domestic credit facilities, term loan facilities, and letter of credit facilities. Andrew has experience with cash flow and asset-based financings, bridge, underwritten and best efforts executions, leveraged recapitalization, senior secured and senior unsecured debt, first-lien, second-lien and crossing lien facilities, subordinated and mezzanine facilities, unitranche facilities, and multicurrency facilities, each across a wide range of credit and financial markets, ranging from investment grade and large corporate, to upper, middle and lower middle market. •DEBT CAPITAL MARKETS, including term loan B facilities, samurai loans, and institutional debt private placements such as private placements and Rule 144A bond offerings. •MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, including leveraged buyouts and management buyouts, auctions and financings for strategic and financial acquisitions, and corporate spinoff transactions. •WORKOUTS, RESTRUCTURINGS AND SPECIAL SITUATIONS, including debt acceleration, equity and asset foreclosure, board reconstitution, and debtor-in-possession (DIP) and exit financings. •SPECIALIZED MATTERS, including Sustainability Linked Loans, Green Loans and other environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) related financings, roll-ups, construction loans and project finance, bank to bank lending, film financings, secondary trading platforms, and matters unique to a diverse collection of asset classes, including, among others, international intellectual property, tax credits, regulatory and commercial licenses and approvals, franchises, and fine art. Andrew’s deal work actively spans the globe, including cross-border transactions throughout several countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to having a global practice, Andrew has experience transacting across a number of industries, including, among others, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and insurance and reinsurance.