Overview
Andrew Davis is a partner in the Tax Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Andrew focuses his practice on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including spin‑off and private equity transactions, as well as securities offerings and banking transactions.
Andrew was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2022, recognizing him as one of five outstanding tax lawyers in the nation under the age of 40, and has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America,” “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” and “500 X — The Next Generation.” He has also been recognized for his work in the tax arena by Legal 500 U.S.
Andrew is vice chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He frequently speaks on important developments in tax law, including for organizations such as the ABA, D.C. Bar, Federal Bar Association, Practising Law Institute (PLI) and NYU’s Institute on Federal Taxation. In particular, he is a frequent commentator on topics in corporate taxation such as the corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT), having participated in events including PLI’s “Basics of International Taxation,” where he spoke on a panel entitled “Compliance with Minimum Taxes.” Andrew authored “Private Equity Funds,” a Bloomberg Tax Management Portfolio and a flagship treatise on private equity fund transactions. He has also served as lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, where he has taught corporate income taxation.
Andrew received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2010, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2014, where he was an articles editor of the Journal of Law, Business & Finance; and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020.
Andrew completed a one‑year clerkship with the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.
Accolades
- U.S. Taxes: Non‑contentious, Legal 500 U.S. (2022-25)
- 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, Lawdragon (2025)
- 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers, Lawdragon (2025)
- 500 X — The Next Generation, Lawdragon (2023, 2024, 2025)
- International Tax, Legal 500 U.S. (2022, 2023, 2024)
- Rising Star: Tax, Law360 (2022)
Education
- New York University School of Law, LL.M. 2020
- Stanford Law School, J.D. 2014 (Articles Editor, Journal of Law, Business & Finance)
- Princeton University, A.B. (summa cum laude) 2010
Representations
- Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block
- AP WIP Investments in its $860 million acquisition by Landscape Acquisition
- Atalaya Capital Management in its $800 million sale to Blue Owl Capital
- AXA in its $15.3 billion acquisition of XL
- Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal
- BDT in its majority investment in Marquette Transportation
- Bridge Investment Group’s special committee in the $1.5 billion acquisition by Apollo
- Cable One in the formation of Clearwave Fiber, a joint venture with GTCR, Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization
- Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition, which included an $800 million PIPE investment
- The special committee of Clearwater Analytics in the pending $8.4 billion acquisition by a consortium led by Permira and Warburg Pincus
- Corteva in the pending spin-off of its Seed business
- Cox Enterprises in Cox Communications’ pending $34.5 billion combination with Charter Communications
- Deutsche Telekom in its Master Framework Agreement with SoftBank and T‑Mobile, pursuant to which DT consented to SoftBank’s sale of T‑Mobile shares for approximately $20 billion
- Disney in ESPN’s pending acquisition of NFL Network and other media assets from the NFL in exchange for a 10% equity stake in ESPN; the combination of its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo; ESPN’s proposed joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Venu Sports; and ESPN’s strategic alliance with PENN Entertainment to launch ESPN BET
- Endeavor’s special committee in the $25 billion take‑private acquisition by Silver Lake
- FactSet in its $246.5 million acquisition of LiquidityBook; its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global; and its acquisition of Irwin
- Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company
- Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway.com in Grubhub’s sale to Wonder
- GW Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals
- Hibu Group in the sale of its U.S. business to H.I.G. Capital
- The special committee of the Hudson board of directors in the sale of all remaining equity interests in Hudson to Dufry
- IBM in its acquisitions of AlchemyAPI and Blue Box Group
- Johnson & Johnson in connection with multiple transactions, including the IPO and separation of Kenvue; its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies; its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx; its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed; its $6.5 billion acquisition of Momenta; Ethicon’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health; its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion; its ¥230 billion acquisition of Ci:z; the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity; and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive
- Just Eat Takeaway.com in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub
- Knorr-Bremse in its $149.5 million acquisition of R.H. Sheppard and the sale of R.H. Sheppard to Balmoral Funds
- Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue, and its $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE and acquisition of DynCorp International; the sale of Liquid Tech Solutions to Velocity Rail Solutions, a Wind Point Partners portfolio company; the acquisition of Golden State Foods; Summit Interconnect’s acquisition of Royal Circuit Solutions; the sale of Pixelle to H.I.G. Capital; the acquisition of a majority interest in Pike; and its acquisition of VDM from ThyssenKrupp
- The senior executive team of McLarens Global Limited in connection with the $1.6 billion recapitalization of McLarens by Lee Equity Partners
- Newcrest in its A$28.8 billion acquisition by Newmont
- OLX Group in letgo’s combination with OfferUp of their U.S. businesses and OLX Brazil in its R$2.9 billion acquisition of Grupo ZAP
- OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media
- Paramount in its proposed $108.4 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
- Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e and the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort
- Prosus in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Stack Overflow and its $500 million PIPE investment in connection with Churchill II SPAC’s $1.5 billion merger with Skillsoft and acquisition of Global Knowledge
- Radius Global Infrastructure in its $3 billion acquisition by EQT Active Core Infrastructure and PSP Investments
- Richemont in its $1.1 billion PIPE investment in Farfetch, in partnership with Alibaba
- Robinhood in its initial public offering; its $300 million acquisition of TradePMR; and its joint venture and partnership with Susquehanna to operate a CFTC‑licensed exchange and clearinghouse and the related acquisition of MIAXdx
- Robotic Research in its $228 million Series A financing round
- SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation
- The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL’s Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris
- Tabula Rasa in its $570 million take‑private acquisition by Nautic
- TaskUs’s special committee in the proposed $2 billion take-private acquisition by Blackstone and the company’s co‑founders
- Unilever in its acquisition of OLLY and its $384 million acquisition of TAZO from Starbucks
- Univision in its sale of a majority stake to Searchlight and ForgeLight
- WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock
- Wiz in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google
Matters may have been handled prior to joining Paul Hastings.
Involvement
- Vice Chair – Corporate Tax Committee: American Bar Association
- Member – New York State Bar Association
- Lecturer in Law – Stanford Law School