A partner in the Tax Department, Andrew Lawson advises clients on the tax aspects of a broad range of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Andrew provides tax counsel to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, among other clients, in the structuring and negotiation of mergers and acquisitions, take-private transactions, majority and minority investments, preferred equity investments, senior secured financings and other complex transactions.
Andrew’s experience spans industries including technology and software, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, energy and infrastructure, financial services and consumer products.
Andrew’s experience includes advising:
- Adair Winery in its $85 million acquisition of the Swanson Vineyards, Sonoma Coast Vineyards, Cosentino, Cherry Pie and Bar Dog brands
- Advent International in:
- Xplor Technologies’s merger with Clubessential Holdings
- its approximately $1.5 billion acquisition of Encora Digital
- Apollo S3 Investment Management in its investment in Crestview Partners Continuation Fund
- Aptive Environmental, a portfolio company of Citation Capital Management, in its senior secured term loan and revolving facility
- Arcosa in its $180 million acquisition of Ameron Pole Products
- Astorg Partners in its approximately $282 million take-private acquisition of Hamilton Thorne and simultaneous acquisition of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) product portfolio of Cook Medical
- Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Allentown
- Berkshire Partners and its portfolio company National Carwash Solutions in the acquisition of Zep Vehicle Care
- Blackstone, along with Greater Sum Ventures, in its preferred equity investment in Inhabit
- Citation Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in Aptive Environmental
- CPP Investments in its $1.2 billion financing for Caturus’s Commonwealth LNG project
- Goldman Sachs Alternatives in a strategic investment by its Private Equity business in Schellman
- H.I.G. Capital in its take-private acquisition of Converge Technology Solutions
- Integrated Power Services Holdings,a portfolio company of Searchlight Capital Partners, in its incremental senior secured term loan facility
- J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of TRICOR
- Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Unlimited Technology
- Montagu Private Equity in its acquisition of Tyber Medical and combination with Intech and Resolve
- Presidio Investment Holdings in its merger with EQV Ventures Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by EQV Group
- Providence Equity Partners in its sale of Tait
- PSG and its portfolio company mPulse Mobile in:
- PSG’s acquisition of mPulse Mobile
- mPulse Mobile’s acquisition of HealthCrowd
- QW Holding (Quala) in its acquisition of PSC
- Searchlight Capital Partners and its portfolio company Integrated Power Services in:
- the acquisition of Integrated Power Services, together with co-investors
- Integrated Power Services Holdings’ incremental senior secured term loan, delayed draw and revolving facilities to finance its add-on acquisition of TechPro Power Group
- SOLV Energy, a portfolio company of American Securities, in its $589 million initial public offering
- Steward Health Care System in a $75 million debtor-in-possession senior secured term loan facility to finance its chapter 11 cases
- Stone Ridge Holdings Group in its acquisition of Wincoram Asset Management
- Subsidiaries of Steward Health Care System, as borrowers, under a bridge loan facility
- TPG in its significant investment in Smith + Howard
- The Visualize Group in its acquisition of BMM Testlabs
