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 and private equity transactions.  Mr. Ment’s M&A experience includes public and private acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buy-outs, “going private” transactions and joint ventures.  Mr. Ment also practices in the area of corporate finance, where his experience includes syndicated lending, royalty sales & financings, registered offerings, and private placements.

Representative Matters

  • Forest Laboratories, Inc. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Clinical Data, Inc.
  • Procter & Gamble in the $3.1 billion sale of its pharmaceuticals business to Warner-Chilcott.
  • Snow Phipps Group in its acquisitions of ITSolutions and the IT services business of NetStar-1, Inc.
  • Northwestern University in the sale of a portion of its worldwide royalty interest in Lyrica for $700 million.
  • GSI Holdings Corp. and Charlesbank Capital Partners in the acquisition of a majority interest in GSI Holdings Corp. by Centerbridge Capital Partners.
  • Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. in its $2.3 billion merger into Evraz Group S.A.
  • Abbott Laboratories in its $3.7 billion acquisition of Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Kerr-McGee Corporation in its $18 billion merger into Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
  • Pfizer Inc. in its acquisition of Rinat Neuroscience Corp.

Previous Experience

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

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