ANDREW ADAIR’s practice focuses on representation of issuers, FinTech companies, private equity funds, specialty credit funds, banks, real estate investment trusts, insurance companies, corporate borrowers, alternative asset funds and others in a wide variety of structured, asset securitization, warehouse, forward flow purchase, secured lending, special situations and other commercial finance transactions. Acquisitions and financings of personal loans, debt settlement loans, point-of sale consumer loans, small business loans, residential mortgage loans and other receivables comprise a significant portion of his practice.
While in law school, Andrew served as a Schiff Hardin Facilitator for the inaugural Kapnick Leadership Development Initiative and as a comment editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum. He was a recipient of the Donald E. Egan Scholar Award, the Ann Watson Barber Outstanding Service Award and the Thomas R. Mulroy Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy. Before joining Sidley, Andrew served as a Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic, and previously worked as a policy advisor in the U.S. Senate.