Overview
Andrew (Andy) B. Lehman advises clients in complex mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, structured equity transactions and management equity arrangements. He represents clients in an array of industries, including conventional and renewable energy, information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer products and financial and business services.
Andy has extensive experience advising private equity groups and infrastructure funds in the context of change of control transactions, structured equity investments and portfolio company management. He also provides clients general corporate counseling.
Results
- Represented a public company acquirer in three separate stock-for-stock mergers involving an aggregate transaction value in excess of $2 billion*
- Represented a global private equity group in its buyout of another financial sponsor’s equity interest in a chemicals distribution and storage concern and related joint venture arrangement*
- Advised a financial sponsor in connection with multiple structured equity investments, including its $750 million preferred equity investment in an acquisition vehicle created to acquire oil and gas assets and subsequent recapitalization of the investee company and its $500 million growth investment in a midstream enterprise*
- Represented a private equity group in connection with its leveraged buyout of a family of companies involved in the building materials and packaging verticals*
- Counseled a private equity group in its leveraged acquisition of a distressed automotive concern*
- Advised the infrastructure-focused group of a global private equity fund in connection with a distributed energy-focused joint venture vehicle with a European technology concern*
- Counseled a private equity group in connection with its $220 million acquisition of a Brazilian telecom company*
- Represented a financial sponsor in its acquisition by cash merger of a technology services business backed by a consortium of venture capital funds*
- Assisted in the divestiture of a 49 percent equity interest in a midstream subsidiary by a publicly traded midstream enterprise to an infrastructure fund for aggregate cash consideration of approximately $350 million*
- Advised in the merger of two master limited partnerships resulting in a midstream energy business with an enterprise value of approximately $7 billion*
- Counseled a financial sponsor in its approximately $2.5 billion leveraged recapitalization of a hydraulic fracturing company*
- Served as counsel in the sale of a 50 percent equity interest in an oil terminalling company for cash and equity consideration in an aggregate amount in excess of $1 billion*
- Counseled a financial sponsor in a $470 million, preferred equity-financed management buyout of a portfolio company*
- Represented a master limited partnership (MLP) in its $1.5 billion acquisition by cash merger of a midstream enterprise*
- Assisted with the $837 million acquisition of a midstream logistics business by an MLP for cash and equity consideration*
- Advised in the sale of an exploration and production company for $4.2 billion*
- Represented a private equity group in its $1.7 billion acquisition by a cash merger of a publicly traded consumer products company*
- Advised in a $410 million divisional carve-out sale of a consumer products company*
- Assisted in a series of sales of solar enterprises to financial sponsors and overseas investors*
- Provided advice in a $635 million sale of a minority equity interest in a refining joint venture*
- Assisted with the $124 million acquisition of an industrial components manufacturer by a holding company formed and controlled by a consortium of private investors*
- Advised a financial sponsor in its minority equity recapitalization of an electronics concern*
- Represented a special committee of the board of directors of a publicly traded corporation in its negotiation of an approximately $360 million induced conversion of shares of convertible preferred stock held by two financial sponsors*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Credentials
Education
University of Texas School of Law, JD, cum laude, 2005
University of Chicago, MA, 2001
Vanderbilt University, BA, magna cum laude, 1999
Admissions
Texas
Languages
English
Spanish