Andrew is a partner in Gunderson Dettmer’s Silicon Valley office and co-chairs the firm’s M&A practice. He has negotiated and completed over 450 M&A transactions involving technology companies with an aggregate value of over $200 billion, covering virtually every industry.

Over the last 30 years, Andrew has represented venture-backed companies in their sales to publicly traded and private equity buyers such as Adobe, Airbnb, Alibaba, Allergan, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Atlassian, Autodesk, Bio-Techne, Bioverativ, Blackstone, Cadence, Cisco Systems, DiDi Global, eBay, F5 Networks, Fifth Third Bank, Fortive, General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Home Depot, Invitae, Lilly, LinkedIn, Meta, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, News Corp, Nokia, Oracle, Prosus, Roper Technologies, Royal Dutch Shell, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, SoFi, Telstra, Thoma Bravo, VMware, Wal-Mart and Yahoo.

Andrew has also developed deep experience in M&A transactions involving “unicorn” technology buyers, having represented Anduril, Databricks, Incode and Ripple in their purchases of other companies and having represented clients sold to Airbnb (when private), Databricks, OpenAI, SentinelOne (when private) and others. 

Before joining Gunderson, Andrew represented publicly traded companies such as Block, Cisco Systems, Flextronics, Intuit, Sony and Symantec in numerous purchases of both publicly traded and privately held companies, as well as business combinations and divestitures.