Andrew demonstrated everything you would want in your counsel: consistently thoughtful and strategic advice, a cool head, concern for our organization, and a great sense of humor throughout.
—Connor Diemand-Yauman, Co-CEO, Merit America

Andrew Caplan combines a pragmatic commercial sensibility with a keen attention to detail to guide clients through the lifecycle of complex, technology-related commercial agreements and other corporate transactions.

Andrew frequently represents Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies in structuring and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, particularly involving software licensing and development, hardware manufacturing and distribution, international business process outsourcing, intellectual property licensing, employee benefits, and M&A transition services. This often includes advising major financial institutions, technology companies, and other household name brands on their most significant commercial contracts, as well as helping startups secure transformational relationships with their most strategic enterprise customers. Andrew’s technology transactions experience spans a broad range of emerging technologies including online lending platforms, mobile payments, big data analytics, blockchain and virtual currencies, cloud-based services, augmented reality, and e-commerce solutions. Andrew compliments his transactional practice with over a decade of experience with financial services regulations, with particular knowledge of issues pertaining to lending, consumer reporting, and data licensing. Andrew is also active in the firm’s recruiting efforts and in mentoring junior associates.

Andrew is admitted in New York and Washington, D.C. He is practicing under the supervision of California Bar members.

 

Representative Experience

  • Assisted the Nielsen Company in negotiating and restating a $2 Billion+ series of global outsourcing transactions with Tata Consulting Services that spanned 100 countries.
  • Represented a global financial institution in negotiating and documenting a series of strategic technology licensing and services agreements in connection with the launch of its online deposits and lending platform.
  • Advised a major financial institution in restructuring and negotiating its commercial relationships with the three major credit bureaus.

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  • Advised numerous disrupters in the fintech arena, including virtual currency and blockchain solution providers, marketplace lenders, and alternative data and consumer reporting companies, among others, in structuring novel product offerings and documenting strategic relationships in light of U.S. financial regulatory and privacy requirements.
  • Defended a leading payments company in a time-sensitive regulatory examination by the CFPB, requiring an end-to-end review (and remediation) of the company’s advertising collateral and marketing materials.
  • On a pro bono basis, assisted indigent tenants in enforcing their rights under District of Columbia Law to enjoy sanitary housing conditions.

Professional Highlights

  • Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America (published by BL Rankings LLC) for Technology Law (2023 – 2024)

Education

  • J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 2011
    The George Washington International Law Review

    B.A., Tufts University, 2007
    cum laude

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

    New York