Andrew W. Smith is a Partner in the Firm's Corporate Department.  His areas of concentration are mergers and acquisitions and general corporate representation.  He regularly represents private equity firms, such as First Reserve Corporation, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Snow Phipps Group and TPG Capital, L.P., as well as their portfolio companies, and major public companies, in acquisition and divestiture transactions. 

Andrew has been involved in several significant leveraged buyout transactions, including the $45 billion acquisition of TXU Corp. by an investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs, the $11.3 billion acquisition of SunGard Data Systems by a consortium of private equity firms and the $3.65 billion acquisition and $8.3 billion sale of Texas Genco LLC by an investor group consisting of The Blackstone Group, Hellman & Friedman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG Capital.  Andrew also represented TPG Capital in its roll-up of consumer packaging businesses into Altivity Packaging and subsequent combination of Altivity Packaging with Graphic Packaging Corporation, and in its 2010 acquisition of American Tire Distributors.  Andrew has particular experience in transactions in the energy and utility area, including the acquisition of Saxon Energy Services by First Reserve Corporation and Schlumberger Limited, the sale of a 20% minority stake in Oncor Electric Delivery Company to OMERS and GIC, and acquisition and joint venture transactions for ITC Holdings Corp., an independent transmission company.  Andrew regularly represents Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in connection with its energy and natural resources investments, including KKR’s minority investment in and subsequent sale of oil and gas exploration company East Resources, KKR’s Eagle Ford shale joint venture with Hilcorp Energy and KKR’s oil and gas partnership with Premier Natural Resources.

Andrew leads the Firm’s pro bono efforts for New York Cares and Hastings Farmers Market.

Andrew joined Simpson Thacher in 1997 and became a partner in 2006.  He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1992 and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1996, where he was Production & Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review.  From 1996 to 1997, Andrew clerked for the Honorable Roger J. Miner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

Admissions

•	New York 1997

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 1996 J.D. Columbia Law Review, Production & Managing Editor
•	Brown University, 1992 B.A.