Andrew M. Ray

Among other high profile transactions, Andy led the team representing Oculus VR from its initial formation through its $2 billion sale to Facebook, which was named the M&A Advisor M&A Deal of the Year.

Andy writes and speaks frequently on topics that include corporate finance, private equity, technology, M&A, corporate governance, and cross-border deals.

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• Represented Applications Technology LLC (AppTek), a technology provider in the artificial intelligence and machine learning space, in its strategic partnership with Deluxe Media Inc.
• Represented the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., a non-profit corporation organized in New York, in connection with its merger with the National Center for Transgender Equality, a non-profit corporation organized in Washington, DC
• Represented Waterfall Asset Management and its affiliates in connection with their acquisition of CIT Group’s $2 billion small business lending platform
• Represented Oculus VR in its definitive agreement to be acquired by Facebook for approximately $2 billion
• Represented Platinum Equity in connection with its acquisition of Securus Technologies for $2 billion
• Represented PAE Incorporated in its $1.9 billion sale to Amentum Government Services Holdings LLC
• Represented Cogeco Communications, Inc. and Atlantic Broadband in the $1.1 billion acquisition of the Ohio cable systems of WideOpenWest, Inc.
• Represented Atlantic Broadband, a subsidiary of Cogeco Communications Inc., in its $1.125 billion acquisition of WideOpenWest Inc.'s (WOW) broadband systems in Ohio
• Represented co-developer in a $1 billion financing to build the largest new power plant in New York City in 25 years 
• Represented Southern Light in its $700 million sale to Uniti Group 
• Represented Fibertech Networks, a Nautic Partners and Ridgemont Equity Partners portfolio company, in its $500 million sale to Court Square Capital 
• Represented PAE, Inc., in its $200 million acquisition of government contractor Centra Technology, Inc. 
• Represented Smart Wires Inc. in a series of related transactions including a private placement of ordinary shares of Smart Wires Technology Ltd, a newly formed British Virgin Islands parent holding company (SWT), for aggregate proceeds of approximately $150 million, and the subsequent direct listing of Swedish depository receipts representing SWT ordinary shares on the NASDAQ First North Growth Market Exchange in Sweden
• Represented Hawaiian Telcom in its $50 million acquisition of the inter-island submarine and middle-mile terrestrial fiber infrastructure assets owned by the bankruptcy estate of the Paniolo Cable Company
• PLEZi Nutrition, a company selling food and drinks intended to be healthier for children, in its formation, financing, and governance matters, as well as ongoing commercialization and FDA regulatory work
• ImOn Communications, LLC, a fiber-to-the-premises broadband company, in its sale to the infrastructure investing business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• Represented IQ Fiber LLC in its sale of a majority interest to SDC Capital Partners
• Represented Grain Management LLC in its acquisition of Young’s Communications LLC
• Represented Upskill in its sale to TeamViewer
• Represented EMG International LLC in the equity investment by TransAlta Renewables Inc.
• Represented TalkToMira Inc. in its series seed financing round from Flybridge Capital Partners, Newark Venture Partners, City Light Capital, Plug and Play Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and individual investors
• Represented QxBranch in its sale to Rigetti Computing
• Represented International Code Council in its purchase of all of the assets of NTA Inc.
• Represented E. Ritter and Company in its sale of a majority stake in Ritter Communications to Grain Management
• Represented Link Labs Inc. in the sale of its Iota Link to Iota Communications Inc.
• Represented Atlantic Broadband in its acquisition of Thames Valley Communications
• Represented Diamond V Mills in its sale to Cargill
• Represented RPP Corp in its sale to Emerson Electric
• Represented Young's Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Grain Management, LLC, in its acquisition of Fiber Optic Services, a provider of technical services to the telecommunications industry
• Represented Young Communications, LLC, a portfolio company Grain Management, LLC, in its acquisition of Atlantic Engineering Group, a high-growth construction services provider to the telecommunications industry
• Represented Grain Management in its acquisition of LightRiver’s Technologies & Software entities, comprising a premier optical network integration solution provider to the telecommunications, utilities, datacenter and cloud industries
• Represented ImOn Communications, LLC, a fiber-to-the-premises broadband company, in its sale to the infrastructure investing business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• Represented PLEZi Nutrition, a company selling food and drinks intended to be healthier for children, in its formation, financing and governance matters, as well as ongoing commercialization and FDA regulatory work

Representative Clients

• 3i Infrastructure
• Atlantic Broadband
• Exploding Kittens
• Cogeco Communications, Inc. (XTSE:  CGO)
• College Ave Student Loans
• The George Washington University
• Grain Management
• Hawaiian Telecom
• Icon Infrastructure Funds
• The International Code Council
• Internet Society
• Juggernaut Capital Partners
• PAE, Inc. (NASDAQ:  PAE)
• Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:  PTPI)
• Smart Wires
• TalktoMira
• Zoa Energy, LLC