Bio

Andrew Felner is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s New York office and is a member of the firm’s Private Equity Team. He also serves as the Team Leader of the firm's Private Wealth Services Team. Andrew's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures, equity financings and other corporate transactions. His depth of experience ranges across billions of dollars’ worth of both domestic and international transactions and public and private deals. Since joining the firm, he has advised on transactions in a wide range of industries, including industrial and manufacturing, automotive, energy, financial services, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, real estate and construction, amusements, healthcare, internet, food services and restaurants. Mr. Felner has built and runs a substantial practice representing private equity sponsors and other types of fund managers, public and private corporations, family offices and family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs and other types of investors. Andrew is the former Deputy General Counsel and chief transactional lawyer for Citigroup Inc. where he led the bank’s legal team for all strategic M&A and investments globally for almost 10 years. Before returning to private practice, he co-founded and led two affiliated entrepreneurial investment businesses, FDX Capital LLC and FDX Offshore LLC where he focused on direct transactions with ultra-high net worth families and investments in the maritime and energy industries. Andrew was the senior-most corporate and transactional lawyer at Citigroup, reporting directly to the Company’s General Counsel and managing a team of 75 lawyers and staff. While at Citi he handled more than $100 billion of proprietary M&A transactions, divestitures, investments and joint ventures, in more than 25 countries. He also helped lead all of Citi’s multi-billion dollar recapitalization efforts during the financial crisis, including all legal aspects of the sovereign wealth investments and TARP. Andrew focuses on finding solutions and getting things done for his clients. He brings deep and hands on transactional experience, judgment and a highly commercial and client focused approach to deals. Having spent many years in the business world both as a senior officer of a global financial institution and as an investment business entrepreneur (and as a client himself of numerous law firms), he approaches all matters with a well-developed sensitivity to the business priorities, issues and objectives of the client.