Andrew James

About Andrew James

Andrew is a senior associate in our private capital practice based in our New York office. He regularly advises private equity sponsors, venture capital funds and strategic clients on domestic and cross-border transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, take-privates, spin-offs, joint ventures, and growth equity investments.

Andrew has particular industry experience in the technology and energy/infrastructure sectors. Andrew also has extensive cross-border experience, regulary representing European and Asian sponsors and corporate clients. Prior to joining Freshfields, Andrew was a corporate associate at another leading international law firm.

Andrew speaks English and French.

Recent work

Private Capital

• TPG on its investment in fintech saving and investing app Acorns, including TPG’s lead role in Acorns $300 million Series F
• TPG Growth on its investment in Beauty for All Industries
• Sempra Energy and Sempra Infrastructure Partners in equity financing matters
• Creadev in its lead role in the cross-border Series D of Alira Health Group Holdings
• H.I.G. Capital on multiple transactions and portfolio company matters
• Roark Capital in multiple transactions and portfolio company matters
• Veritas Capital on platform acquisitions and portfolio company matters
• Blackstone in certain equity investment matters
• Golub Capital in certain  equity investment matters
• Antares Capital in certain equity investment matters
• Noble Investment Group in its strategic partnership with Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
• The Vincit Group in its sale to Harvest Partners

Public Company M&A and Take-Privates

• SLB (f/k/a Schlumberger) on its pending $8 billion all-stock acquisition of ChampionX Corporation
• New Relic on its $6.5 billion cash sale to affiliates of Francisco Partners and TPG
• Arch Resources, Inc. on its $5.2 billion merger-of-equals with Consol Energy Inc.
• Webhelp SAS on its cross-border $4.8 billion combination with Concentrix Corporation
• Renewable Energy Group on its $3.2 billion cash sale to Chevron
• Xerox on its terminated $35 billion tender offer and proxy contest for HP
• Aaron’s, Inc. on its $1.2 billion spin-off of The Aaron’s Company and the $3.8 billion listing of PROG Holdings Inc
• Greenhill & Co in its role advising Genesis Park Acquisition Corp. on its $615 million business combination with Redwire
• Jernigan Capital in its $900 million cash sale to NexPoint Advisors LP

Distressed M&A and Restructuring Matters

• Affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Goldman Sachs SSIG, and the other senior secured lenders on their Chapter 11 pre-packaged acquisition of APC Automotive Technologies and disposition thereof
• Jack Cooper Investments in its restructuring agreement with Cerberus Capital Management and $425 million sale to affiliates of Solus Alternative Asset Management
• Argonne Capital Group and its portfolio company, The Krystal Company, in its Chapter 11 restructuring and Section 363 Sale to affiliates of Fortress Investment Group
• New Mountain Capital in its restructuring agreement with and acquisition of Tenawa Resources Management
• Capital One, N.A. in its multicreditor partnership agreement in connection with the Chapter 11 restructuring of Castex Energy Partners, LLC 
• AEA Partners in its recapitalization of Omni Logistics

Strategic M&A

• Cencora (f/k/a AmerisourceBergen) on its pending $4.6 billion acquisition of Retina Consultants of America
• Rockstar Energy on its $4.3 billion sale to PepsiCo
• Trustmark Mutual Holding Company on its $400 million carve-out sale of Trustmark Health Benefits, a third-party health benefits administrator, to Health Care Service Corporation
• Robert Bosch GmbH on its:
  • acquisition of HydraForce
  • acquisition of the assets of TSI semiconductors as the initial step of Bosch’s planned investment of $1.5 billion in a US semiconductor manufacturing

Pro Bono

• Pact Global Microfinance Fund (PGMF) in intercreditor negotiations with global development banks as well as financing matters in Southeast Asia
• Non-profit organizations and individuals in connection with immigration matters, including the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program and USCIS asylum proceedings
• Non-profit organizations with corporate governance and formation matters

*This list includes work that Andrew completed while at a prior firm.