Andrew is an experienced collaborator, helping clients realize their goals by leading complex strategic alliances, joint ventures, and other “partnering” arrangements. His experience negotiating commercial agreements, including licensing, sourcing, manufacturing and supply, channel partnerships, and marketing agreements allows him to put his clients’ needs first with a view toward growth and innovation. Clients lean on Andrew to help them develop, protect, and monetize IP, and design creative and forward-thinking strategies to manage technology, IP, and commercial issues in financing, M&A, and other corporate transactions. In addition to his transactional practice, Andrew helps clients navigate the inevitable legal and regulatory gray areas that emerge as they innovate, disrupt, and push their industries forward into new and novel frontiers.

When FinCEN updated its anti-money laundering Travel Rule to include virtual asset services providers, Fenwick client Coinbase was aware of the existential challenge posed to the emerging digital asset industry as well as an opportunity. It relied on Andrew to advise on the creation, development, and global rollout strategy of Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST), a consortium of over 90 virtual asset services providers led by Coinbase and other prominent digital asset exchanges and an industry-driven solution designed to assist TRUST members in complying with the Travel Rule.