Andy Tucker

Partner

  • Andy Tucker
  • Phone: +1 202 776 5248

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    901 New York Avenue N.W., Suite 700 East
    Washington, DC 20001-4795
    USA

Andrew M. Tucker practices in the area of corporate finance with a focus on public offerings and related mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Tucker represents growing companies, particularly in the technology and government contracting sectors. His clients maintain operations around the globe.

Mr. Tucker regularly advises companies in various industries such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, government services and contracting, REITs, telecommunications, managed services, renewable energy, oil and gas, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, aviation, consumer products, and financial technology companies. He advises SPACs on their initial formation and sponsor capital raise, through the IPO process and their initial business combination.

In addition to providing general corporate guidance, Mr. Tucker also assists his clients with a broad variety of transactional support, including venture capital and private equity transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private securities offerings.

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate and Securities
  • Alternative Energy

Admissions

  • Washington, D.C.
  • Virginia
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Georgia

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2025-present

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1987
    - Lead Articles Editor, The Tax Lawyer
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A., with honors, 1984

Professional Activities

  • The District of Columbia Bar
  • The Virginia Bar Association

Honors and Awards

  • M&A Advisor Deal Financing of the Year, 2022
  • Nexl Community Lawyer of the Week, Sept. 2021
  • The Best Lawyers in America©, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2006–2024
  • Smart CEO Power Players, 2013
  • Legal 500 United States, Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts–M&A: Middle-Market (Sub-$500m) category

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Washington DC ArchAngels, Member and board of Directors, 2010-present

Representative Matters

  • Represented Global Star Acquisition Inc., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $590 million business combination with K Enter Holdings Inc., an umbrella entity of South Korea-based entertainment companies creating original entertainment content and managing related intellectual property; the merger will result in the creation of K Wave Media Ltd. 

  • Advised Maxim Group LLC as sole book-running manager for Nexalin Technology, Inc.’s underwritten public offering of 3,850,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $1.30 per share. 

  • Advised Veraxa Biotech AG, a Nasdaq-listed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of a comprehensive pipeline of next-generation cancer therapies, in its $1.3 billion merger with Voyager Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands-exempted company and publicly traded special purpose acquisition company targeting the healthcare sector (Nasdaq: VACH).