Andrew P. Erdmann

• The Legal 500 (2025)

NexPhase Capital, LP

• Acquisition of Empower Community Care, a leading global behavioral health enablement platform providing proprietary, evidence-based services and software to support at-risk youth, families, and communities, from Northlane Capital Partners.
• Investment in Insurance Systems, a provider of enterprise software solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry.
• Investment in Aztec Software, an educational software company focused on the adult education and workforce training and certification markets, including various add-on acquisitions.*
• Acquisition of DealerOn Inc., a leading provider of websites, social media marketing, SEO, SEM and internal lead management for car dealerships, including various add-on acquisitions.*

Solamere Capital

• Various acquisitions and other matters for portfolio company Vensure Employer Services, a professional employer organization (PEO).*
• Various growth equity and other investment transactions.*

Other Private Equity Transactions

• Treville Capital in its investment in Embark, a business advisory firm specializing in finance, accounting and technology.*
• Sightway Capital in the sale of its majority interest in Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC), a program administrator, building end-to-end insurance products by connecting its broad network of insurance markets and retail/wholesale distribution channel, to KKR & Co. Inc.*
• New Mountain Capital in a number of transactions, including add-on acquisitions and dispositions for its ILC Dover, Real Chemistry and Tinuiti portfolio companies.*

• Arena Investors in its investment in Pacific Production Services, a leading film permitting agency, and Pacific Traffic Control, a business providing traffic control solutions for film production, special events, and construction zones.*
• The sale of Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC, a premier legal services provider specializing in corporate restructuring, class action and mass tort administration, and trustee and fiduciary services, to GCP Capital Partners.*
• Investment in LRN Corporation, a leading provider of ethics and compliance education, learning technology, data analytics and strategic solutions, by Leeds Equity Partners.*

Other M&A Transactions

• The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) in its two-phase agreement to increase its ownership of DECIEM Beauty Group Inc., the Canadian-based, vertically integrated, multi-brand beauty company, with the completed first phase investment reflecting a total enterprise value of approximately $2.2 billion.*
• PVH Corp., one of the world’s largest apparel companies, in sales of its Speedo North America business and Warners, Olga and True & Co. businesses.*
• Sale of End-to-End Analytics, a boutique analytics and data science consultancy, to Accenture (NYSE: ACN).*
• American City Business Journals (ACBJ), a leading publisher of local business information, in its investment in BizEquity, a provider of business valuation software.*
• Aceto Corporation, an international company engaged in the development, marketing, sale and distribution of human health products, pharmaceutical ingredients and performance chemicals, in the $411 million sale of its chemical business assets, plus the payment of cure costs and the assumption of certain liabilities, through a Court-supervised process under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.*
• Infineum USA L.P., a specialty chemicals company producing petroleum additives for lubricants and fuels, in its agreement to acquire Entegris, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ENTG) Pipeline and Industrial Materials business (PIM), including the Flowchem, Val-Tex, and Sealweld brands and a broad range of Drag Reducing Agents (DRAs) for pipeline operations (terminated).*

*Handled prior to joining Choate

• Member, American Bar Association (Business Law Section, M&A Subcommittee)