Andrew S. Kreider

Andrew Kreider is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Los Angeles office.

Areas of Practice

Andrew’s practice primarily focuses on advising high-growth companies and their investors on a broad range of transactional matters including:

• Organizational and founder matters.
• Initial- through late-stage angel, venture capital and other debt and equity financings.
• Complex commercial transactions, including joint ventures and strategic alliances.
• Mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and recapitalizations.
• Corporate governance and counseling.

Andrew’s representation of clients spans a number of industries, including technology, internet, financial services, digital media, consumer products, apparel, food and beverage, biotech, e-commerce and cross-border transactions.

Andrew is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in Colorado.

Experience

• Represented BitGo, a leader of institutional staking, custody and trading of digital assets, in its capital raising transactions and acquisitions of Hedgly Capital Advisors, Lumina Technologies and Harbor Platform.
• Represented Spotter, a creator platform, in its Series C and Series D preferred stock financings.
• Represented loanDepot, America’s second largest non-bank lender, in its initial public offering and acquisitions of American Coast Title and Closing USA.
• Represented Sony Interactive Entertainment, a multinational video game and digital entertainment company, in various investment transactions.
• Represented Blue Shield of California in various investment transactions.
• Represented Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, in various investments.
• Represented SK hynix, a semiconductor and memory solution company, in various investment transactions.
• Represented HealthLoop, a SaaS-based medical practice communication platform, in its sale to GetWellNetwork.
• Represented Fosun Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company, in various investments.
• Represented Breakwater Investment Management, a financial planning and investment advisory firm, in its debt and equity investments in The Madera Group.
• Represented CIM Group, a real estate and infrastructure developer, and OCV Fund, a technology and healthcare-focused venture capital fund, in various investment transactions.
• Represented Thrive Capital, a venture capital fund, in various investments.
• Represented XL Innovate in various investment transactions.
• Represented Hydra Ventures, an apparel and sports-focused investment and business development firm, in various investments.
• Represented Histogen, a regenerative medicine company, in various early- to late-stage private placements of securities.
• Represented Opus Bank in various investment transactions.
• Represented Celerity Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm, in various investments.
• Represented Sage Venture Partners, a venture capital fund, in various investment transactions.
• Represented Diodes in its acquisition of Pericom Semiconductor.
• Represented Saffron Technology, a maker cognitive computing platforms, in its merger with Intel.
• Represented Infrastructure Solutions, a manufacturer and supplier of infrastructure products, in its acquisition of certain assets of Dayton Superior.
• Represented Wolfe Engineering, a semiconductor company, in its sale to Jabil Circuit.
• Represented Dialogic in its acquisition of Apex Communications.
• Represented Synthicity, a software application developer, in its sale to Autodesk.
• Represented Estate Assist, a developer of estate planning tools, in its sale to DocuSign.
• Represented Premier Valley Bank in its sale to Heartland Financial.
• Represented Ingram Micro in its acquisition of Parallels Holding.
• Represented TechFlow, a technology developer, in the adoption of its employee stock ownership plan.
• Represented Relativity Media in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructuring.

Articles

Corporate & Securities Law Blog Posts

• "SEC Staff To Express No Views On Conflicting Shareholder Proposals Under Rule 14a-8(i)(9)," January 29, 2015

Venture Law Blog Posts

• "SAFEs and KISSes Poised to Be the Next Generation of Startup Financing," May 12, 2015
• "FDA Issues Guidance for Low-Risk General Wellness Products," January 23, 2015

Video Game Law Blog Posts

• "Baker v. Microsoft Corporation: Game Companies Beware, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision May Make It More Difficult to Defeat Class Actions," April 15, 2015

Media Mentions