Andy’s practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions and advising public and private companies on a variety of other corporate and securities matters, including strategic transactions, corporate governance matters, and compliance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the listing standards of securities exchanges.

Andy has extensive experience advising both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and other registered and unregistered offerings of common and preferred equity, debt, and equity-linked securities. He also serves as primary outside counsel to a number of public and private companies and regularly advises members of management and boards of directors regarding corporate and securities matters.

Andy is recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA 2023 for REITs and as a Rising Star in IFLR1000 2023 for Capital Markets: Equity.

Representative Experience

• Represented the initial purchasers in a $300 million Rule 144A offering of 9.000% senior secured notes of Office Properties Income Trust (Nasdaq: OPI).

• Represented the initial purchasers in a $941 million Rule 144A offering of zero coupon senior secured notes of Diversified Healthcare Trust (Nasdaq: DHC).

• Represented UDR, Inc. (NYSE: UDR) in connection with multiple public offerings of debt and equity securities resulting in proceeds in excess of $6 billion.

• Represented Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) in connection with its $1.0 billion convertible notes offering to affiliates of Silver Lake and Sequoia Capital.

• Represented Broad Street Realty, Inc. (OTCQX: BRST) in connection with its joint venture and preferred equity investment from Fortress Investment Group.

• Represented MedEquities Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MRT) in connection with its $256 million initial public offering, its $164 million 144A offering and private placement of common stock, and its $125 million private placement of preferred stock.

• Represented Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc. (NYSE: AHH) in connection with multiple public offerings of common and preferred stock and private placements of operating partnership units.

• Represented SoftBank Group Corp. in its $150 million Series A preferred stock investment in Afya Limited (Nasdaq: AFYA).

• Represented the underwriters in Modiv Industrial, Inc.’s (NYSE: MDV) Series A preferred stock offering, as well as the initial listing of its common stock and related offering.

• Represented the underwriters in multiple underwritten secondary offerings of shares of Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA).

• Represented the underwriters in multiple underwritten secondary offerings of shares of BrightSpire Capital, Inc. (NYSE: BRSP) by a stockholder affiliated with DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG).

• Represented B. Riley in a $30 million equity line of credit for Beam Global (Nasdaq: BEEM).

• Represented private investment firms in equity lines of credit for multiple issuers.

• Represented Anzu Special Acquisition Corp in its $425 million initial public offering and its subsequent merger with Envoy Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: COCH).

• Represented Science Strategic Acquisition Corp. Alpha in its $310 million initial public offering.

• Represented Endurance Acquisition Corp. in its $200 million initial public offering.

• Representing Baird and Goldman in the $300 million at-the-market equity offering of Watsco, Inc. (NYSE: WSO).

• Represented MedEquities Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MRT) in its $600 million merger with Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (NYSE: OHI).

• Represented RH (NYSE: RH) in connection with its $350 million Rule 144A offering of convertible notes.

• Represented Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) in connection with its $300 million Rule 144A offering of convertible notes.

• Represented Inovalon Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: INOV) in its $685 million initial public offering.

• Represented Farmland Partners Inc. (NYSE: FPI) in connection with its initial public offering and subsequent public offerings of its common stock, its $131 million offering of 6.00% Series B Participating Preferred Stock, and private placements of operating partnership units.

• Represented the management team at Parkway, Inc. in connection with its $1.2 billion acquisition by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

• Represented UDR, Inc. (NYSE: UDR) in connection with Home Properties, Inc.’s $7.6 billion acquisition by Lone Star Funds in which UDR acquired six communities for approximately $908 million.

• Represented BMO Capital Markets, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup in Sun Communities, Inc.’s (NYSE: SUI) $250 million at-the-market equity offering.

• Represented the underwriters in connection with Independence Realty Trust’s (NYSE: IRT) $34 million offering of common stock and concurrent listing.

• Represented Jefferies and Baird in the initial public offering of AmREIT, Inc.

• Represented JP Morgan, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and KeyBanc in the $293 million initial public offering of Retail Properties of America, Inc. (NYSE: RPAI).

• Represented Colony Financial, Inc. in its $287.5 million initial public offering.