Andrew W. Ment

Partner

ament@cov.com
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Covington & Burling LLP
The New York Times Building
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018-1405
Tel: 212.841.1012


 

Practices

Industries

Education

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 1998
    • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • Swarthmore College, B.A., 1993

Bar Admissions

  • New York


Andrew Ment’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities, and general corporate advice.  His M&A experience includes public and private acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buy-outs, “going private” transactions and joint ventures.  In addition, he frequently represents investment banks as financial advisors in M&A transactions.  His finance and securities experience includes syndicated lending, royalty sales & financings, registered offerings, and private placements.

Representative Matters

  • Represented Northwestern University in the sale of a portion of its worldwide royalty interest in Lyrica for $700 million.
  • Represented GSI Holdings Corp. and Charlesbank Capital Partners in the acquisition of a majority interest in GSI Holdings Corp. by Centerbridge Capital Partners.
  • Represented the special committee of the board of directors of Moscow CableCom Corp. in connection with the acquisition by Renova Media Enterprises of the remaining interest in Moscow CableCom.
  • Represented Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. in its $2.3 billion merger into Evraz Group S.A.
  • Represented Abbott Laboratories in its $3.7 billion acquisition of Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Represented Thomson Reuters in its acquisition of Solucient LLC.

Previous Experience

  • Economic Consulting Services Inc., Staff Economist (1993-1995)

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