Andrew Westgate

Assistant General Counsel

Clear Sky Advisors, LLC

Andrew Westgate is Assistant General Counsel and Senior Analyst for Carbon at Clear Sky. With over 10 years of experience in advisory services, Andrew manages legal and regulatory matters relating to investments in CCAs, RGGI Allowances and other types of carbon credits, provides analysis of regulatory and policy developments, and develops investment strategies and products based on carbon credits.

Prior to joining Clear Sky, Andrew worked as an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he advised financial institutions and oil and gas, power, industrial companies on a range of environmental matters including climate change, environmental credits, carbon neutrality and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). His experience includes transactional diligence and contract negotiation, permitting, transaction structuring, and environmental issues at legacy sites. Andrew also advised clients on environmental issues as part of Latham’s Greater China Practice. Prior to joining Latham, Andrew worked in Beijing, China, as a consultant, providing strategic advice to American firms working in China, and at an environmental technology startup.

Andrew graduated magnum cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and received an BA from Dartmouth College.