Family Office and
Private Equity
Andrew serves as general counsel for family offices and private investors. In that role, Andrew performs the following:
- Negotiates hundreds of domestic and foreign private equity, venture capital, real estate, and alternative investments, exceeding in the aggregate $750 million, in a variety of markets and industries.
- Structures investments and transactions with private equity funds, hedge funds, and investment groups, often requiring creative and complex economic and voting arrangements.
- Serves as a general counsel to portfolio companies for strategic and operational matters.
- Supervises and executes the closing of numerous successful exit transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, initial public offerings, and other highly-negotiated divestitures.
- Establishes and maintains a protocol of internal controls over certain investment portfolios to ensure, among other things, that (a) the status of each investment is regularly updated, and (b) the investor can exercise its rights in respect of each investment.
- Collaborates with the investor’s insurance, tax, and estate planning professionals to ensure investments will be consistent with the requirements of the investor’s portfolio profile.