A dean of the national healthcare law bar, Andy has been a key business and legal advisor to healthcare organizations for over three decades.
Andy has enjoyed a long career as a lawyer in private practice and as a business and management consultant at one of leading consulting firms in the U.S. For over three decades, he has counseled clients in the healthcare industry through dozens of enterprise-defining corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and related financings. Andy’s experience touches on all phases of the corporate lifecycle, from early-stage growth to exit transactions, including those to private equity sponsors. His clients range from startups to large Fortune 50 corporations. In addition to his highly regarded work on corporate transactions, Andy maintains an active practice counseling clients in connection with governance and compliance issues, and he is frequent speaker and presenter on these issues and on professional responsibility and ethics.
After beginning his career in private practice at a boutique law firm, Andy joined Jones Day in 1985, where he served as a partner for nearly two decades in that firm’s corporate and healthcare practice groups. He joined the partnership of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in 2004 and continued his representation of a wide range of healthcare and corporate clients.
He also was a Managing Director of Berkeley Research Group, LLC from 2012-2021, where he consulted with healthcare entities on business strategies and served as an expert witness in healthcare and corporate disputes.
He has a long history of service in the American Bar Association. He served as chair of the Health Law Section in 2007-08 and current serves on a several of its committees and hosts regular podcasts for the Section. He has served on the Annual Meeting Planning Committee from 2007-14 and the Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel from 2014-17. He was the California representative on the Board of Governors from 2018-21 and served in the House of Delegates. Currently Andy is a member of the Council of the ABA Fund for Justice and Education, which is the charitable arm of the ABA, and chair of the 2023 ABA Giving Day fundraiser. Andy has been appointed to serve on the Board of Governors Subcommittee on Investments and is a member of the Advisory Board of the ABA Democracy Task Force.