Biography
Andrew is counsel in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group in the Firm's Houston office.
Andrew advises corporate clients and private equity funds (and their portfolio companies) on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, divestitures and carve-outs, joint ventures, recapitalizations and other corporate matters across a broad spectrum of industries.
He also represents sponsors, project developers, private equity funds and other capital providers and investors in the energy and infrastructure industries.
Experience
Representative Experience:
Goldman Sachs & Co. in a $7 billion equity co-investment (alongside Blackstone Credit & Insurance, KKR and Apollo-managed funds) in Port Arthur LNG Phase 2, a liquefied natural gas infrastructure project developed by Sempra Infrastructure Partners.*
POSCO International in connection with its equity investment in the US$45 billion Alaska LNG project, the only federally authorized LNG export project on the US Pacific Coast.*
Chevron on its equity investment in a $3 billion crude oil export pipeline project in Vaca Muerta Sur, Argentina.*
Summit Midstream Partners in its joint venture with Clariter S.A. to develop cutting edge chemical recycling plants in the United States.*
Atlas Holdings in a variety of acquisitions and divestments in the automotive components sector, including its acquisition of USF Holdings from the Gores Group.*
SK Group in an investment agreement and partnership with World Energy GH2 for the construction and development of a $4.5 billion green hydrogen project located in Newfoundland, Canada.*
Guggenheim Partners on various equity investments totaling multiple billions USD, including preferred equity financings of three fiber network operators and a major home healthcare services provider.*
Elbit Systems in its $380 million acquisition of Sparton Corporation, a key supplier of undersea warfare systems to the U.S. Navy, from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital.*
IAC/InterActiveCorp in the structuring, negotiation and execution of equity derivatives transactions to hedge $1.15 billion of exchangeable notes and the spin-off of the Match Group.*
The Walt Disney Company in the sale of its FOX Sports Mexico assets to Grupo Lauman.*
The Murdoch Family Trust in the negotiation and execution of a stockholders agreement with FOX Corporation in connection with the company's announced $2 billion stock repurchase program.*
Johnson & Johnson on multiple acquisitions and divestitures in the medical devices sector.*
Grupo Interproteccion in various media-for-equity investments by TelevisaUnivision and related spin-off of its B2C business.*
Irradiant Partners in a $100 million preferred equity investment in PosiGen, a leading provider of renewable energy and efficiency solutions for low to moderate income households.*
Oakhill Advisors in a $500 preferred equity commitment to Bluesource for the development of forest carbon offsets.*
Korea Electric Power Corporation and Sprott Korea in the acquisition of Canadian Solar's 49% interest in three photovoltaic projects in Mexico and their agreement to acquire Canadian Solar's remaining interest in the projects following their commercial operation date.*
Prisma Medios de Pago, Argentina's leading payments company, in its sale to Advent International.*
Sixth Street Partners in a Series C preferred equity financing of Piano Software, a B2B software provider.*
Uber Technologies and its affiliate Aleka Insurance in a $345 million loss portfolio transfer reinsurance transaction with James River, under which Aleka will reinsure all of James River's commercial auto policies related to Uber's ridesharing business.*
EMX Capital in its approximately $100 million GP-led secondary restructuring. This deal was the first of its kind in Mexico and among the first in Latin America.*
Merck & Co. on its global reorganization in connection with the $9 billion spin-off of its women's health, trusted legacy brands and biosimilars businesses.*
Trafigura in its approximately $200 million joint venture with IEnova to develop a refined products marine terminal and storage facility in Manzanillo, Mexico.*
Blackstone and portfolio company Fisterra Energy in the $852 million sale of the Ventika wind generation facilities, the largest wind farm in Mexico and one of the largest in Latin America, to IEnova.*
Ascent Resources in its equity investment by Riverstone and the simultaneous acquisition of Utica Shale assets from Salt Fork Resources, a Riverstone-backed company.*
Warburg Pincus in a $300 million capital commitment to Citizen Energy Holdings.*
Bonanza Creek Energy on its proposed $746 million sale to SandRidge Energy.*
Warburg Pincus in its lead role in a $1.3 billion line of equity commitment to Venari Resources.*
Emerson Electric in its strategic portfolio repositioning, including the sale of its InterMetro business unit to Ali Group and its $3.15 billion acquisition of the Valves & Controls business of Pentair.*
An affiliate of Goldman Sachs on its sale of Sigma Electric to Argand Partners.*
Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments in its preferred equity investment in Aquilon Energy Services.*
PartnerRe in its contested merger with AXIS Capital and subsequent $6.9 billion acquisition by EXOR.*
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in its acquisition of Kapa Biosystems, Inc.*
Tailwind Capital and its portfolio company, Long's Drugs Inc., in its acquisition of Avita Drugs Inc.*
Roper Technologies, Inc. on its acquisition of RF IDeas, Inc.*
Grupo Televisa in its $745 million acquisition of Cablecom.*
GP Investments in the $400 million debt restructuring of an oil & gas portfolio company.*
*Matters prior to joining White & Case.