A former Big Law attorney and general counsel at both public and private companies, Andrew Glickman combines extensive corporate and M&A experience with a firsthand perspective, helping clients identify opportunities and overcome hurdles.
Andrew’s experience spans mergers, acquisitions, private equity, capital raising, IPOs and corporate governance matters. From China and Japan to Russia, the Middle East, and across the U.S., Andrew represents clients worldwide, negotiating and structuring their most significant and complex transactions and providing them with day-to-day counsel. He steered both Uber and sweetgreen through their successful IPOs and regularly advises a global clientele on a broad spectrum of legal concerns. Andrew has handled more than 50 intricate global M&A transactions for both operating companies and well-known private equity fund sponsors, including Blackstone, Apax Partners, L Catterton, New Mountain Capital, ABRY, FTV Capital and Starwood Capital. Andrew’s clients appreciate his extraordinary insight and experience in handling both the business and legal sides of deals. He also has 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.
Clients rely on Andrew for comprehensive corporate counsel and his general counsel expertise. He is uniquely positioned to offer strategic advice to clients on a wide range of topics including fund formation, compliance issues, litigation, internal investigation, employment and equity matters, data privacy, marketing, and software licensing agreements, demonstrating his versatility and commitment to superior client service.
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 Accela, MyFitnessPal, and BSwift.
- Various add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies of Alpine Investors, including Medusind.
- Various strategic transactions for Honeywell, Inc.
- 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.