Andrew Gallagher

Andrew Gallagher

Partner Corporate & Finance

London

+44 20 7296 2566

[email protected]

Languages

English

Andrew Gallagher

Overview
Experience
Credentials
Insights and events

"Andrew Gallagher is able to distill complex concepts into simple terms ultimately able to come to a compromised solution in a reasonably short period of time."
Legal 500 UK, 2023

Andrew is a partner in the firm's Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects team. He focuses on infrastructure finance, project finance, PPP and related M&A transactions.

He advises senior lenders, sponsors/investors and borrowers on a variety of international infrastructure and project finance deals across a range of market sectors including transport (rail, roads, airports and ports), social infrastructure (hospitals, schools), power (IPPs/IWPs) and renewable energy (offshore wind, solar and waste to energy).

Andrew is recognised in the major legal directories for his expertise, including as a “Leading Individual” for Infrastructure: Project Finance and Development (Legal 500 UK, 2019-2025), Projects (PFI/PPP) (Chambers UK, 2015-2024), and Infrastructure (Chambers UK, 2020-2024). Clients are quoted as stating that “Andrew Gallagher has been consistently outstanding as lender’s counsel. He has managed to balance communication with the sponsors whilst maintaining trust with lenders” (Legal 500 UK, 2023).

"Andrew Gallagher is able to distill complex concepts into simple terms ultimately able to come to a compromised solution in a reasonably short period of time."
Legal 500 UK, 2023

Representative experience

The UK Government's Department for Transport (DfT) on the £1.8bn Intercity Express Rolling Stock PPP project.

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) on the US$330m financing for the expansion of the Takoradi 2 Power Plant, Ghana. The first IPP in Ghana to utilise project financing.

UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) on the £250m tranche for the £3bn NeuConnect Germany-UK interconnector project, the first direct power link interconnector cable between Germany and Great Britain.

The Senior Lenders financing the £1bn acquisition of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton Airports by Macquarie and Ferrovial from BAA.

European Investment Bank (EIB) on the €1bn financing to the £4bn Thames Tideway Tunnel Project.

The Senior Lenders providing funding to the Vinci/Hochtief Consortium on the €1.15bn Maliakos-Kleidi PPP toll road project in Greece.

The Senior Lenders to the Riverlinx Consortium (Macquarie, Cintra, BAM and Abrdn) on the project financing of the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel PPP project in the UK.

The Tube Lines Consortium on all aspects of the £2.1bn London Underground PPP project.

UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) on the £130m project financing to Highview Power in connection with its development of a novel 50MW/250MWh "Liquid-Air" cryogenic energy storage facility.

A syndicate of DFI lenders, including AfDB and FMO, in relation to the project financing of the Ilute solar PV project in Zambia.

A syndicate of DFI lenders in relation to the project financing of the 50MW Tulu Moye geothermal project in Ethiopia.

DFC in a US$100m financing to the Africell Group for the expansion of its mobile telecom and mobile money network operations in Angola, the DRC, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and The Gambia.