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    • Apr 08, 2021

W. Andrew Jack

Partner

Washington +1 202 662 5232

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  • About
  • Representative Matters
  • Credentials
  • About

    Andy Jack is a broad gauge corporate and securities lawyer who leads multidisciplinary teams to help clients achieve complex business objectives and solve complex business problems.

    Andy often serves in outside general counsel or senior strategist roles working closely on strategic matters with C-suites and boards. His practice spans mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures, venture capital, capital markets, securities compliance, corporate governance counseling, crisis management and dispute settlements.

    With deep experience in the energy, diversified industrials, transportation, technology, sports and hospitality industries, much of Andy’s recent transactional and advisory work focuses on issues arising from global sustainability trends and ESG considerations, including the energy transition, vehicle electrification and advanced mobility.

    Some examples of this trending work include:

    • Energy
      • Structuring and negotiating joint ventures to produce sustainable aviation fuels and to develop and deploy shared resources to respond to offshore well blowouts.
      • Advising on a carbon capture project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
      • M&A, finance, capital raising and commercial projects for solar PV panel suppliers.
      • Representing corporate offtakers in virtual power purchase agreements to procure renewable energy in support of wind and solar power projects.
      • Advising on U.S. public policy matters affecting the energy transition.
    • Vehicle Electrification and Advanced Mobility
      • A capital markets transaction for an industry leader in advanced mobility.
      • Multiple venture capital financing rounds for an electric truck manufacturer.
      • Joint venture restructuring and M&A transactions for EV battery manufacturers.
      • Collaboration agreements among vehicle electrification technology providers and OEMs.
      • M&A of advanced vehicle components suppliers and engineering service providers.
    • Other industries
      • Advising on board governance structures to address ESG and Sustainability oversight.
      • Assisting clients in developing voluntary sustainability reports and improving SEC reports and proxy statements to address these topics.
      • Responding to shareholder proposals on various ESG issues.

    Andy co-chairs the firm’s multidisciplinary global Energy Industry Group and multidisciplinary Sustainability Solutions Initiative. He also serves as pro bono outside general counsel to the American Council on Renewable Energy and as a member of the World Resources Institute Global Leadership Council. With this background and experience, Andy frequently speaks at industry conferences and publishes on these topics. He also serves as an editor of the firm’s Inside Energy & Environment blog

    He is Chambers-ranked in Corporate M&A & Private Equity, where clients report that Andy "gives practical advice with commercially reasonable solutions to problems." He also has been ranked in Legal 500, both for Energy – Renewable/Alternative and Mergers & Acquisitions.

    Areas of Expertise

  • Practices and Industries
  • Representative Matters
    • Vontier Corporation in the secondary equity offering of common stock held by Fortive Corporation.
    • Oshkosh Corporation in its acquisition of Pratt Miller Engineering & Fabrication.
    • LanzaTech in its formation of LanzaJet, a joint venture with Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co. to develop and produce sustainable aviation fuel.
    • Rogers Corporation in its credit facilities and acquisitions of DeWal Industries, Diversified Silicone Products and Griswold. 
    • ExxonMobil in structuring and establishing with Chevron, Shell, and ConocoPhillips the Marine Well Containment Company, a venture dedicated to build and deploy a rapid response system to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
    • Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. in its $420 million underwritten public offering of common stock and convertible senior notes and in its acquisition of Solar Integrated Technologies.

    • Joy Global Inc., a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, in its $270 million acquisition of the parent holding company of Continental Global Inc, its $1.1 billion acquisition of LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. and subsequent sale of LeTourneau’s drilling systems business, and a $500 million senior notes offering.
    • D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission in relocation of the former Montreal Expos to Washington DC, including stadium development and interim lease agreements with Major League Baseball and the Washington Nationals, $535 million stadium revenue bond offering, and related legislative approvals.
    • JLG Industries, Inc. -- $3.2 billion merger into Oshkosh Truck Corporation, Global Strategic Alliance with Caterpillar for the development, manufacture and marketing by JLG of Caterpillar-branded telehandlers, Acquisitions of Omniquip and Gradall Industries, public offering of $125 million common stock, private placements of $125 million senior notes and $175 million senior subordinated notes.
    • Independent board committees of two technology companies addressing stock options practices, evaluation of strategic alternatives, succession of senior management.
    • Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (successor to Chiron Corporation) in its plans to locate, construct and operate a cell culture-derived influenza vaccines manufacturing facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
    • Barclays in its 20-year naming rights and sponsorship agreement with the New Jersey Nets for the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. 
    • Kamylon Capital in its sale of Forgitron Technologies to Accuride Corporation.
    • Energy Conversion Devices in the sale by its subsidiary Ovonic Battery Company (OBC) of OBC’s 20% interest in Cobasys LLC to SB LiMotive Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Samsung and Bosch.
    • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of NYFIX, Inc. on the $144 million sale of NYFIX, Inc. to NYSE Euronext.

    Areas of Expertise

  • Credentials
    Education
    • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1986
        • with highest honors
        • Order of the Coif
        • George Washington University Law Review
    • The George Washington University, B.A., 1983
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    Accolades
    • Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
    • Legal 500 US, Energy - Renewable/Alternative
    • Legal 500 US, Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Washington DC Super Lawyers, Business/Corporate, Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • World Resources Institute - Global Leadership Council, Member 
    • Society for Corporate Governance, Member

    Areas of Expertise

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