W. Andrew Jack
Partner
Covlington & Burling, LLP

Andrew Jack has a diverse corporate and securities practice with clients principally in the industrial manufacturing, technology and sports and entertainment industries. He regularly represents corporations, board committees, and other forms of enterprises in mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, financing activities, Sarbanes-Oxley and 1934 Act compliance, corporate governance counseling, and executive compensation arrangements. Mr. Jack also co-chairs the firm's Clean Energy and Climate industry group.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

  • ExxonMobil in structuring and establishing with Chevron, Shell, and ConocoPhillips theMarine Well Containment Company, a venture dedicated to build and deploy a rapid response system to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. in its $420 million underwritten public offering of common stock and convertible senior notes and in its acquisition of Solar Integrated Technologies.
  • Joy Global Inc., a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, in its $270 million acquisition of the parent holding company of Continental Global Inc, its $1.1 billion acquisition of LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. and subsequent sale of LeTourneau’s drilling systems business, and a $500 million senior notes offering.
  • D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission in relocation of the former Montreal Expos to Washington DC, including stadium development and interim lease agreements with Major League Baseball and the Washington Nationals, $535 million stadium revenue bond offering, and related legislative approvals.
  • JLG Industries, Inc. -- $3.2 billion merger into Oshkosh Truck Corporation, Global Strategic Alliance with Caterpillar for the development, manufacture and marketing by JLG of Caterpillar-branded telehandlers, Acquisitions of Omniquip and Gradall Industries, public offering of $125 million common stock, private placements of $125 million senior notes and $175 million senior subordinated notes.
  • Independent board committees of two technology companies addressing stock options practices, evaluation of strategic alternatives, succession of senior management.
  • Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (successor to Chiron Corporation) in its plans to locate, construct and operate a cell culture-derived influenza vaccines manufacturing facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
  • Barclays in its 20-year naming rights and sponsorship agreement with the New Jersey Nets for the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

EDUCATION

  • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1986 with highest honors (Order of the Coif)
  • George Washington University Law Review
  • The George Washington University, B.A., 1983