Andrew Abell

Andrew Abell is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. 

Andrew represents private and public companies and private equity funds in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, recapitalizations and other complex corporate transactions. Andrew has experience advising private equity funds and other financial sponsors in asset management M&A, “GP stakes” transactions, and seeding arrangements.

Andrew’s experience includes:

M&A and Joint Venture Investments

• S + S Industries in the strategic investment in S + S by Cerberus Capital Management
• Veritas Capital in its acquisition of the Wood Mackenzie business from Verisk
• Cotiviti, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital and KKR, in its acquisition of Edifecs from Franciso Partners and TA Associates
• KKR in its acquisition of Agiloft and its investment in Restaurant365
• GI Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions including the acquisitions of software platforms EqualLevel Inc., Ion Wave, Inc., DemandStar Corporation, and MassageBook and corporate transactions related to Aras Corporation
• Multiple leading private equity energy sponsors in a variety of transactions, including a structured midstream joint venture and control investments into energy-focused portfolio companies
• Sumeru Equity Partners in its take-private acquisition of Q4 Inc.
• True Wind Capital in its sale of AIA Contract Documents to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
• Liberty Hall Capital Partners in the combination of Comply365 with Vistair and related investment by Insight Partners
• FTV Capital in its sale of Docupace to Genstar and its acquisition of SingleOps
• BVP Forge in its acquisition of Medisolv, Inc. and investment in Givebutter, Inc.
• Archer Aviation in its acquisition of Hawthorne Airport
• In-court and out-of-court restructuring transactions including GTT Communications, Inc. (ad hoc group of lenders), J. Crew Group, Inc. (ad hoc group of term lenders and IPCo noteholders), PG&E Corp. (official committee of unsecured creditors), and RentPath Holdings, Inc. (ad hoc group of crossholders)*

Asset Management M&A

• Constellation Wealth Capital in its minority investments in wealth management firms Merit Financial Group, Procyon Partners, Bogart Wealth, and Requisite Capital Management
• Wafra, Inc. in its strategic investment in private equity firm Citation Capital
• Emerging real estate sponsor on a complex GP seeding arrangement with a large financial institution
• DivcoWest in a GP stakes transaction for its affiliate DivCore with Dyal Capital
• Swander Pace Capital in a continuation fund transaction with Captek Softgel International, Morgan Stanley, and Rabobank

Andrew received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2019 and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy with honors from Vanderbilt University in 2016.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Andrew was an associate in the New York office of another major international law firm.

Andrew is admitted to practice law in Colorado and New York.

*Indicates representations by Andrew prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Capabilities

• Private Equity
• Capital Markets
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Credentials

Education:

• Georgetown University - 2019 Juris Doctor
• Vanderbilt University - 2016 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Colorado Bar
• New York Bar