Andrew J. Sherman is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Jones Day, a global law firm with over 2,400 attorneys worldwide. Mr. Sherman is a corporate and transactional attorney and is a recognized international authority on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, capital formation, franchising, and other types of intellectual property leveraging and growth strategies. Mr. Sherman’s incredible life and career could not possibly be adequately summarized in a brief bio and a full bio is available here
However and briefly, Mr. Sherman serves as a legal and strategic advisor to both Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies as well as athletes, celebrities and high net-worth families and individuals in the areas of business planning, public and private capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual asset management and harvesting, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He has worked on a wide variety of public and private securities offerings, acquisitions and related business transactions, channel partner building and general corporate counsel and strategic support to major US and International Companies. One of Mr. Sherman’s areas of expertise is in the strategic management of business growth as well as in the design and analysis of efficient and profitable distribution channels, the structuring of interdependent and synergistic business relationships and in the development of brand-leveraging and licensing strategies and marketing systems to meet a company’s domestic and international growth objectives. Mr. Sherman has formulated the agenda and has lead strategic planning retreats and business growth meetings for a wide variety of major US and International companies.
Mr. Sherman is the author of eighteen (18) books on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth, mergers and acquisitions, capital formation, and the leveraging and licensing of intellectual property. Recent titles include the best-selling Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z, which was published by AMACOM in April of 1998 and has received a wide variety of industry praise and positive reviews. The second edition was published in November 2005 and the third edition will be published in 2009. His eighteenth (18th) book, Road Rules Be the Truck. Not the Squirrel. is an inspirational book about life and was published in the Fall of 2008 (www.bethetruck.com).
Mr. Sherman has served as a top-rated Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive MBA (EMBA) programs for twenty-two (22) years at the University of Maryland. He also teaches in the University of Maryland’s Executive MBA program, where he teaches courses on strategy, business growth, leadership, ethics, diversity and governance. Mr. Sherman also served as an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at Georgetown University for fourteen (14) years. Mr. Sherman is currently teaching internationally-webcasted courses on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and Due Diligence Strategies and Tactics for the Georgetown University Law School’s Lex Mercator program worldwide.
He has been recognized by Fortune Small Business, as one of the nation’s top ten (10) gurus and thought leaders on entrepreneurship in February of 2006 Inc. magazine recognized him as one of the 19 leading resources and advocates for growing companies in the nation. Mr. Sherman’s life story and accomplishments were recently featured in a cover story of the Premiere Trade magazine, published in April 2006 which discussed his outlook and approaches to business growth, strategic challenges and problem-solving. In May of 2007, his approach to the leveraging and management of intellectual assets was published as the cover story article in Inc. magazine.
Mr. Sherman was named in 1998 and in 1999 as one of the 10 Best Attorneys for entrepreneurs and growing companies in the Washington, DC-Baltimore region by the Morino Institute’s Netpreneur Program as well as by Washington Business Forward in 1999 and 2000.
Mr. Sherman is regularly interviewed and has been quoted as an authority on legal and strategic issues affecting business growth, capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, in numerous national publications. Mr. Sherman has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs as well.