Sandy is well-versed in myriad corporate transactions and issues including:

-Sales and acquisitions

-Business planning, strategy and execution

-Board advice and corporate governance

-Mergers, acquisitions, sales, stock purchases and stock swaps

-Recapitalizations and distributions

-Public offerings and private placements of debt and equity, including IPOs and follow-on transactions

-Prospectuses, offering memoranda and proxy solicitations

-Venture, investment and holding company formation, investments and regulation

-Spin-offs and roll-ups

-Workouts and reorganizations

-Employment agreements (including golden parachutes), severance plans, incentive stock option plans and other compensation plans

Additionally, he has extensive experience in an advisory role for boards of directors regarding corporate governance, independent-director duties, and director and officer fiduciary duties.

Sandy served as a Trustee of Stanford University and is the Founding Chair of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University (IRiSS). He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Sandy is the Founding Chair of Odyssey Atlanta, a K-12 educational program. He serves as a Trustee of the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School and is an Advisory Board member at the Carter Center and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. He also has served on the boards of The Paideia School, Prevent Blindness Georgia, and The National Kidney Foundation of Georgia.

Sandy served on the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), National Advisory Board.

As a member of the MBA Advisory Board, he has served as lecturer and executive in residence at The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He also served on the President’s Counsel of the Woodruff Arts Center, Alumni Board of Governors at The Westminster Schools and Leadership Atlanta.

Sandy was honored by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a top lawyer in Corporate M&A. He was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law in 2020 and in each of the eight years immediately preceding, in 2021, 2022 and 2023 for Corporate Law, International Mergers and Acquisitions, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and again in 2024 and 2025 for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Law, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Law, International Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Venture Capital Law. Sandy was recommended by Legal 500 US in 2019 for Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions.