Benesch, one of the fastest-growing firms in the country, is pleased to announce the addition of Andrew Glickman, formerly with Kirkland & Ellis, former general counsel at California-based sweetgreen and part of the team that took Uber public, as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group.
Glickman combines extensive corporate and M&A experience with a firsthand perspective, helping clients identify opportunities and overcome hurdles. His experience spans mergers, acquisitions, private equity, capital raising, IPOs and corporate governance matters. From China and Japan to Russia, the Middle East, and across the U.S., Andrew represents clients worldwide, negotiating and structuring their most significant and complex transactions and providing them with day-to-day counsel. He steered both Uber and sweetgreen through their successful IPOs, raising $10 billion and $350 million, respectively, and regularly advises a global clientele on a broad spectrum of legal concerns.
“With his mix of both in-house and private practice experience, Andrew is uniquely positioned to offer strategic advice to private equity and strategic clients on a wide range of topics that will compliment his M&A and corporate experience,” said Benesch Managing Partner Gregg Eisenberg. “His versatility and ability to understand a variety of issues from the client’s side combine to deliver a commitment to superior client service, which make him an outstanding addition to our team.”
Andrew has handled more than 50 intricate global M&A transactions for both operating companies and well-known private equity fund sponsors, including Blackstone, Apax Partners, L Catterton, New Mountain Capital, ABRY, FTV Capital and Starwood Capital. Additionally, he has raised over $20 billion in venture capital, growth equity and debt financings, utilizing asset-backed credit facilities, private placements, convertible debt and other customized financing techniques.
“Andrew’s clients appreciate his extraordinary insight and experience in handling both the business and legal sides of deals,” noted Stephanie Sheridan, Managing Partner of the firm’s San Francisco office. “He knows what in-house clients want and need, because he has lived it. Andrew is the future of our firm’s dynamic corporate California footprint, and there is something so serendipitous about the fact that he’ll be working with his former Kirkland colleagues, tying Benesch’s West and East Coast corporate practice together.”
Before joining Benesch, Glickman was general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer at NAX Group, Inc./NAX Capital, LLC. He also served as vice president of legal, risk and business development, as well as chief compliance officer and corporate secretary of Sweetgreen, Inc. Prior to that, Glickman was director of the corporate legal team at Uber Technologies, Inc. from 2015 to 2019. From 2009 to 2015, he was a corporate attorney at both Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden. Glickman holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law.