Andrew Kourpanidis

Prior to joining Weil, Andrew was part of the leveraged finance practice of a magic circle law firm in London.  He has also spent time on secondment in the loan structuring and advisory team at Natwest. Andrew is fluent in English and Italian.

Selected experience includes:

• Basalt Infrastructure Partners’ Lenders on the financing of its take private and subsequent refinancing of Nobina, the largest public transport operator in the Nordics
• APG/OMERS’ Lenders on the financing of its acquisition of Kenter, a European metering and medium-voltage infrastructure provider
• Nordion Energi’s funders on its US private placement issuance and refinancing of its common terms platform
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the refinancing of Kisimul Group’s senior facilities
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the refinancing of Hesley Group’s senior facilities
• EQT on the financing of its acquisition of Inexio, a leading provider of fiber-optic internet connection*
• EQT and OMERS in relation to the refinancing of its TLB and revolving credit facilities to Deutsche Glasfaser, a leading provider of fiber-optic internet connection*
• EQT in relation to its acquisition of Unilode Aviation Solutions, a global ULD business.
• EQT’s Lenders on the refinancing of Encyclis, a leading owner and operator of energy-from-waste facilities
• EQT’s Lenders on the acquisition of a majority stake in Covanta (now Encyclis), a leading owner and operator of energy-from-waste facilities
• Px3 Partners on the financing of its acquisition of Celeros Flow Technology’s global clean tech filtration business (now Cleanova)
• Arjun Infrastructure Partners’ Lenders on the refinancing of Indigo Pipelines, an independent UK last-mile pipeline operator
• Polhem Infra on the refinancing of Arelion (previously Telia Carrier), the world's largest Internet backbone network operator
• Macquarie’s Lenders on the refinancing of Matrix Networks, a builder and operator of UK last-mile pipelines.
• Igneo Infrastructure Partners’ Lenders on the financing of its acquisition of enfinium, the largest pure-play waste-to-energy business in the UK
• iCON’s Lenders on the financing of the acquisition of Alliance Medical Group, a leading diagnostic and molecular imaging provider in the UK and western Europe
• Lenders to Vårgrønn (a JV between ENI and HitecVision) on the acquisition of a minority stake in the Dogger Bank wind project
• Global Infrastructure Partners on the refinancing of Vena Energy (and subsequent bridge-to-bond loan), a major independent power producer and renewable energy developer in the Asia-Pacific region*
• Peel Ports’ lenders in relation to the refinancing of its senior term facilities*
• The financiers to EG Group and TDR Capital in relation to EG Group's bid to acquire ASDA*
• Pacific Hydro’s lenders in relation to their ~$700 million global funding portfolio*
• Palisade Investment Partners on its successful bid to become operator of the Sunshine Coast Airport and commercial partner in the associated development of its new runway and related facilities*

* Matter handled prior to joining Weil.