Andrew D. Krause is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He advises on mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures and other significant transactions for a diverse range of clients, including public and private companies, private equity funds and financial institutions. Andrew’s practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance and activist defense matters.
Andrew was recognized as a 2023 “Rising Star” in M&A by Law360 and a 2022 “Rising Star of the Year” by the International Financial Law Review.
Andrew’s experience includes advising:
- 3G Capital in its $7.1 billion acquisition of Hunter Douglas
- Amazon.com in its $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical and its proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot
- Aptiv in:
- the establishment of Motional, a $4 billion autonomous-driving joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group
- the separation of its Electrical Distribution Systems business to create two separate publicly traded companies
- Carrier Global Corporation in its strategic partnership with and investment in Montana Technologies
- Casey’s General Stores in its $1.145 billion acquisition of Fikes Wholesale, owner of CEFCO Convenience Stores
- The special committee of the board of directors of CBS in its merger with Viacom to form ViacomCBS Inc. (now Paramount Global), with an enterprise value of more than $40 billion
- Continental Grain Company in its $4.5 billion joint venture with Cargill to acquire Sanderson Farms
- Crown Castle in:
- the combined $8.5 billion sale of its small cells business to EQT Active Core Infrastructure fund and the sale of its fiber solutions business to Zayo Group Holdings
- its successful proxy fight against Boots Capital
- the activist campaign by Elliott Management
- Digital Currency Group in the sale of CoinDesk to Bullish
- General Electric in:
- its $21.4 billion sale of its biopharma business to Danaher
- the more than $30 billion combination of its jet leasing unit, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), with AerCap Holdings
- its reorganization through spin-offs into separate publicly traded aviation, healthcare and energy companies
- IG Group Holdings in its $1 billion acquisition of tastytrade
- M. Klein & Company in the proposed sale of its investment banking business, The Klein Group, to Credit Suisse Group
- Marathon Digital Holdings in its acquisition of two operational Bitcoin mining sites from subsidiaries of Generate Capital
- Nuance Communications in its $19.7 billion sale to Microsoft
- Oak Hill Capital Partners in its take-private acquisition of Otelco Inc., its partnership with NetSpeed and its strategic partnership with Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Companies
- Preferred Sands in the restructuring of indebtedness of more than $1.4 billion and the carve-out of certain of its in-basin production assets into a new entity, Signal Peak Silica
- Qualcomm, alongside SSW Partners, in its $4.5 billion topping bid for Veoneer
- Virtu Financial in its approximately $1 billion acquisition of Investment Technology Group
