Craig Andrews is a partner in DLA Piper’s Corporate and Finance practice, based in San Diego. Mr. Andrews has more than 30 years of experience representing public and private companies, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. He has extensive experience in public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions, and is regularly sought out by boards of directors for corporate governance advice. He is regarded as one of California’s top corporate attorneys.

Mr. Andrews comes to DLA Piper from Heller Ehrman, where he had served as the chairman of the Venture Law group. Prior to that, he was a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP for almost 15 years, chairing its National Business and Technology practice from 1997 to 1999.

Previously, Mr. Andrews was a co-founder and director of Collateral Therapeutics, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed biotechnology company which was sold to Schering AG in 2002. He was also Vice President of Business Development at AirFiber, a venture-capital backed laser telecommunications company founded to commercialize technology developed at UCSD.

He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of many companies and organizations, including Elgar Electronics (NASDAQ, sold to Dobson Park Industries), Endonetics (sold to Medtronic), GeneFormatics (sold to Genpathway), Axxora Life Sciences (sold to Enzo Biosciences), Encad (NASDAQ, sold to Kodak), Alexis Biochemicals (sold to Qbiogene), Rubios Restaurants (NASDAQ), Legacy Bank (merged into Landmark Bank), the San Diego Venture Group, the UCLA Alumni Association and the San Diego County Water Authority.

Mr. Andrews has been continuously listed in The Best Lawyers in America for over 15 years. In 2007, Lawdragon named him one of the top 500 dealmakers in America. In 2008, he was selected as one of the “Top Influentials for 2007” in the San Diego business community by The San Diego Daily Transcript. He has also been continually named a Southern California Super Lawyer and included on lists of the top business and corporate lawyers in San Diego and Southern California compiled by The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Magazine and The San Diego Daily Transcript.

认许

• California

会员资格

• State Bar of California
• San Diego City Mayor’s Science & Technology Commission

公益与慈善

• Honorary Consul of Denmark for San Diego County
• President, San Diego Consular Corps, 2004-2006
• Former Board Member, UCLA Alumni Association
• Former Board Member, San Diego County Water Authority