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Andrew Kummer is a partner in King & Spalding's Finance & Restructuring practice in New York. He advises financial institutions, asset managers, and private investment firms on complex structured finance, fund finance and derivatives transactions, with a focus on asset-based lending, securitizations, commodity-linked finance, and bespoke capital markets instruments. Andrew brings a commercially pragmatic approach to structuring sophisticated financial products for clients across jurisdictions.

Andrew advises on a wide range of financial products and structures, including receivables purchases and sales, forward flow arrangements, warehouse facilities, structured notes, securitizations, and other asset-based lending arrangements. He counsels funds, asset managers and financial institutions on subscription line facilities, NAV financings, and hybrid facilities in the fund finance space. His experience also extends to physical and financial commodity transactions, including inventory financing and monetization, intermediation arrangements, and energy market master agreements.

Andrew regularly advises on a variety of hedging transactions, including interest rate, deal contingent, and foreign exchange arrangements, along with the related regulatory considerations under the Dodd-Frank Act and other financial reforms.

Andrew is recommended by The Legal 500 US (2024–2025). Before joining King & Spalding, he was an partner at McDermott Will & Schulte LLP and began his legal career at Linklaters, spending time in its offices in both New York and Singapore.

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Credentials

J.D., Brooklyn Law School, cum laude

Legal 500 US, Recommended


2024-2025

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Recognition

Legal 500 US, Recommended


2024-2025

Matters

Structured Auto Finance

Obra Capital — Advised on the acquisition of Obra portfolio company Arra Finance (f/k/a Solera Auto Finance) and subsequent structured credit facilities, including a senior warehouse facility with Goldman Sachs, a mezzanine line with TCW and a forward flow agreement, supporting Arra's acquisition of Crescent Bank's $770 million auto finance division.

Commodity & Intermediation Finance

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Structured Auto Finance

Obra Capital — Advised on the acquisition of Obra portfolio company Arra Finance (f/k/a Solera Auto Finance) and subsequent structured credit facilities, including a senior warehouse facility with Goldman Sachs, a mezzanine line with TCW and a forward flow agreement, supporting Arra's acquisition of Crescent Bank's $770 million auto finance division.

Commodity & Intermediation Finance

Citigroup Energy Inc. — Advised Citi on an $800 million inventory intermediation agreement with Delek US Holdings subsidiary DK Trading & Supply, providing working capital capacity for crude oil, petroleum feedstocks, and refined products across multiple Delek refineries.

Fund Finance

Advised an alternative asset manager client on a hybrid facility collateralized by the fund’s capital call rights with further bespoke credit support structuring based on the NAV of underlying portfolio investments.

Advised ASX-listed LIT fund subsidiary of a multinational hedge fund client in connection with a US$500 million asset-based facility.

Matters

Structured Auto Finance

Obra Capital — Advised on the acquisition of Obra portfolio company Arra Finance (f/k/a Solera Auto Finance) and subsequent structured credit facilities, including a senior warehouse facility with Goldman Sachs, a mezzanine line with TCW and a forward flow agreement, supporting Arra's acquisition of Crescent Bank's $770 million auto finance division.

Commodity & Intermediation Finance

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Matters

Structured Auto Finance

Obra Capital — Advised on the acquisition of Obra portfolio company Arra Finance (f/k/a Solera Auto Finance) and subsequent structured credit facilities, including a senior warehouse facility with Goldman Sachs, a mezzanine line with TCW and a forward flow agreement, supporting Arra's acquisition of Crescent Bank's $770 million auto finance division.

Commodity & Intermediation Finance

Citigroup Energy Inc. — Advised Citi on an $800 million inventory intermediation agreement with Delek US Holdings subsidiary DK Trading & Supply, providing working capital capacity for crude oil, petroleum feedstocks, and refined products across multiple Delek refineries.

Fund Finance

Advised an alternative asset manager client on a hybrid facility collateralized by the fund’s capital call rights with further bespoke credit support structuring based on the NAV of underlying portfolio investments.

Advised ASX-listed LIT fund subsidiary of a multinational hedge fund client in connection with a US$500 million asset-based facility.

Credentials

J.D., Brooklyn Law School, cum laude

Legal 500 US, Recommended


2024-2025

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Recognition

Legal 500 US, Recommended


2024-2025