Andrew Luh

Andrew works with clients across a broad range of industries, including software, internet, life sciences, telecommunications, networking, hardware, consumer and energy and clean technology.

Andrew has negotiated and completed more than 400 M&A transactions involving technology companies with an aggregate value of more than $150 billion. He has represented numerous venture-backed companies in their sales to publicly-traded buyers such as Adobe, Allergan, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Autodesk, Bio-Techne, Bioverativ, Cadence, eBay, Facebook, F5 Networks, Fifth Third Bank, Fortive, General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Home Depot, Invitae, Lilly, Microsoft, News Corp, Nokia, Oracle, Prosus, Royal Dutch Shell, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SoFi, Telstra, VMware, Wal-Mart and Yahoo.

Likewise, prior to joining Gunderson, he represented publicly-traded companies such as Cisco Systems, Flextronics, Intuit, Sony, Square and Symantec in numerous purchases of both publicly-traded and privately-held companies as well as business combinations and divestitures.

Notable transactions include:

• WhatsApp’s acquisition by Facebook for more than $19 billion, the largest acquisition ever of a venture-backed company
• Flipkart’s acquisition by Wal-Mart for $16 billion, reported to be the most highly-valued e-commerce deal ever
• Symantec’s acquisition of Veritas Software for more than $13 billion
• Anaplan’s acquisition by Thoma Bravo for over $10 billion
• Andrew has experience counseling boards of directors in regards to mergers and acquisitions and governance and anti-takeover matters. He also advises venture-capital firms and other investors in M&A transactions involving their portfolio companies.

Prior to joining the firm, Andrew was a partner at Fenwick & West.