
Andrew serves as legal counsel and trusted partner to family and other privately held businesses, entrepreneurs and investors in the manufacturing, retail, professional, franchise, transportation, food service, construction, technology and real estate industries. He provides a wide range of corporate, real estate, tax and regulatory services to clients. Andrew counsels principals, directors, officers and executives on such issues as entity selection and restructuring; mergers and acquisitions; strategic alliances and joint ventures; licensing, distribution and strategic agreements; executive employment, compensation and benefits arrangements; partnership issues; business separations and exit strategies; complex issues of corporate governance; and business succession planning, including management buy-outs. Andrew spends a significant amount of his time counseling family businesses on those issues that are unique to family owned businesses.