Andrew D. Woodard represents clients on a broad range of strategic and commercial transactions, with an emphasis on the financial services, technology and fintech industries.
Woodard regularly advises clients on complex technology and intellectual property matters and has extensive experience with monetization of financial data and transactions that involve the intersection of technology and financial services regulations, including strategic alliances, payment relationships, outsourcing transactions, licensing and development agreements, service agreements and content licenses. He also regularly handles intellectual property, technology and operational issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, financings and other corporate transactions.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global IP Lawyers | 2026 | IP, Licensing |
| The Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global IP Lawyers | 2025 | IP, Licensing |
Woodard has counseled clients on a wide variety of issues relating to the ownership, protection and enforcement of intellectual property and technology rights; the application of domestic and international financial services regulations to innovative technology platforms; and domestic and international data privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations. Mr. Woodard’s experience in information technology and background in film and television production provides clients with a distinct understanding of the unique challenges that arise in transactions in these sectors.
Projects on which Woodard has worked include:
- Citigroup Inc./Citibank, N.A. in numerous commercial and strategic transactions, including its:
- separation of its institutional banking business in Mexico from its consumer, small business and middle market businesses
- agreement with Amazon.com, Inc. to offer Citi cardholders alternative payment methods when making purchases on Amazon.com
- sale of its fixed-income analytics and index business, including The Yield Book and the World Government Bond Index (WGBI), to the London Stock Exchange Group
- sale of its credit card merchant acquiring business in 11 countries across Asia
- Citi Ventures in the formation of, and investment in, Ensemble Technologies and the spin-out of assets to, and initial acquisition of common stock of, Worthi
- Wells Fargo & Company/Wells Fargo Bank in connection with its:
- carve-out sale of certain assets of Wells Fargo Asset Management, related legal entities and its collective investment trust business to Allspring Global Investment, which was formed by GTCR and Reverence Capital Partners (recognized as Deal of the Year (Large) at the Americas M&A Atlas Awards)
- carve-out sale of its Institutional Retirement & Trust business to Principal Financial Group
- Willis Towers Watson in its:
- treaty reinsurance joint venture with Bain Capital
- $4 billion sale of Willis Re to A. J. Gallagher
- proposed $80 billion combination with Aon plc
- proposed divestiture sale of Willis Re and a set of corporate risk and broking and health and benefits services to A. J. Gallagher for $3.57 billion
- Zip Co Limited in its acquisition of QuadPay
- The Bank of New York Mellon, Computershare, Clearstream, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and State Street in connection with their investment in Proxymity (spun out by Citigroup)
- Enterprise data users in the negotiation and renegotiation of agreements regarding licensing and use of third-party financial data
- a major travel company in the renegotiation of its payment relationships in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic
- E*TRADE in multiple acquisitions and divestitures, including in its sale of G1 Execution Services to Susquehanna International Group
- The Walt Disney Company in its $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd.
- Pfizer Inc. in multiple transactions, including its $11.9 billion sale of its infant nutrition business to Nestlé S.A., $1 billion sale of its infusion systems business to ICU Medical Inc., the restructuring of its worldwide strategic alliance with Eisai Pharmaceuticals and the negotiation of a copromotion agreement for Lyrica in Japan
- Frontier Communications Corp. in its $10.54 billion acquisition of the wireline operations of Verizon Communications Corp. and $2 billion acquisition of the Connecticut wireline business of AT&T Inc.
- the National Hockey League in connection with various new media projects
- a social networking start-up in a development, licensing and hosting relationship with a major media and entertainment company