Andrew Glickman

Andrew’s experience spans mergers, acquisitions, private equity, capital raising, IPOs, corporate governance and outside general counsel advice. Andrew has handled more than 100 intricate global M&A and minority investment transactions for both well-known private equity fund sponsors, including Francisco Partners, Five Arrows, Alpine Investors, FFL Partners, Knox Lane and GroundForce Partners, as well as operating companies such as Honeywell, Palmetto, Universal Music Group, Atmus Filtration Technologies, Scribd and Amplitude.

Prior to joining Benesch, Andrew was in house for a decade during which time he steered both Uber and sweetgreen through their successful IPOs. At Uber, Andrew led over 20 M&A transactions around the world, including in China, Southeast Asia, Russia, the Middle East and across the U.S. Andrew’s clients appreciate his extraordinary insight and experience in handling both the business and legal sides of deals. He has also raised over $20 billion in venture capital, growth equity and debt financings, utilizing asset-backed credit facilities, private placements, convertible debt, and other customized financing techniques. 

Highly regarded for his strategic know-how, creativity and deal success, Andrew has a proven ability to navigate complicated legal challenges. He is passionate about team building, mentorship and collaboration, fostering cross-functional cooperation and working seamlessly with colleagues, business partners, management teams and boards of directors to tackle even the most complex legal issues.

Representative Matters:

• Various add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies of Francisco Partners, including Merative, Accela, MyFitnessPal, and BSwift.
• Various add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies of Five Arrows, including Springbrook and KEV Group.
• Various add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies of Alpine Investors, including Medusind.
• Various strategic transactions for Honeywell, Inc., including the acquisition of SparkMeter.
• Represented Scribd, Inc. in its acquisition of Fable, a leading social reading platform known for its community-powered book clubs and reader engagement tools.
• Represented Amplitude Inc. in its acquisition of Kratful, an AI-native Voice of Customer (VoC) startup.
• Led both Uber (2019) and Sweetgreen (2021) through IPO, raising $10 billion and $350M, respectively.*
• Guided three separate carveout sales of Uber’s ride-sharing and food-delivery businesses in China, Southeast Asia and Russia, respectively, to Uber’s largest competitors in each of those markets, in exchange for becoming the largest minority shareholder in each of those competitors, for an aggregate deal value of approximately $40 billion.*
• Advised on Blackstone’s leverage recapitalization bid for Dell, Inc., valued at approximately $24 billion during Dell’s “go-shop” process after Dell signed a definitive agreement to consummate a management take-private transaction.*
• Led all aspects (business and legal) of sweetgreen’s acquisition of Spyce Food, a robotic-powered restaurant company whose technology will enable Sweetgreen to automate the assembly of its ingredients in its restaurants.*
• Handled the $1 billion carveout investment in Uber’s self-driving vehicle subsidiary, negotiating against Toyota, Softbank Vision Fund and Denso.*

*Matter completed prior to joining Benesch.