Andrew James

About Andrew James

Andrew is an 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.