Andrew J Nussbaum

Andrew J. Nussbaum is the Co-Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the Corporate Department, joining the firm in 1993 and becoming partner in 1999. Mr. Nussbaum's practice involves a wide range of merger and acquisition-related matters, including cross-border transactions, spin-offs, divestitures, carve-out IPOs, private equity transactions and joint ventures.

Mr. Nussbaum handles related work in public offerings, financings, corporate governance and takeovers, and has completed a number of multibillion dollar cross-border transactions involving mergers between U.S. and European companies, acquisitions in Latin America, investments in China, a public company transaction in Russia and a major transaction involving one of Australia’s largest listed companies. While involved with a wide range of industries, he has extensive experience with international companies in media and entertainment, cross-border matters and private equity transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Nussbaum served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and thereafter to Justice Antonin Scalia, United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Nussbaum is a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations.

Mr. Nussbaum speaks Russian and Spanish. Mr. Nussbaum is active in various nonprofit organizations and serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, Member of the Executive Committee of the Partnership for New York City, and Member (previously Chairman) of the Board of Directors of Asphalt Green, a sports and fitness organization promoting wellness, water safety and health for New Yorkers. Mr. Nussbaum was previously on the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

Amherst College

B.A.

1985

Oxford University

M.A.

1992

University of Chicago Law School

J.D.

1991