Andy’s practice includes corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions and banking law. In particular, he helps clients with SEC compliance, public and private securities offerings, the regulation of financial institutions and the buying and selling of businesses. He is an expert in the writings of P.G. Wodehouse and the exploits of Sherlock Holmes.

He has advised clients in an immense variety of securities, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance deals, ranging in size from $3.1 billion to $100,000, including the $3.1 billion sale of First Commerce Corporation to Bank One; the purchase of Sugarland Bank by MidSouth Bancorp for $1.2 million; the $500 million purchase of Zapata Corporation by Tidewater, Inc.; the sale of VitaRx to McKesson Corporation for $62 million; Amedisys's acquisition of HMR Acquisition, Inc.; public offerings of oil and gas interests for a single client aggregating $1 billion and the private offering of oil and gas interests for a single client of $100,000; as well as initial public stock offerings for several companies.

Andy wrote the Louisiana Bank Holding Company Law, which ushered statewide banking into Louisiana, and since then has handled over 30 bank mergers in the state, representing both buyers and sellers.

He graduated from Northeast Louisiana State College in 1962 and got his L.L.B. from Louisiana State University in 1965, where he was Order of the Coif, Associate Editor of the Louisiana Law Review and Vice President of the student body.

He has been the editor of the Louisiana Corporate Newsletter and co-editor of Basic Forms for Louisiana Corporations, has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, in corporate law, since that publications inception in 1983 and has been ranked by New Orleans Magazine as one of the city's top lawyers in banking, securities and corporate law. Chambers and Partners in its publication, America's Leading Business Lawyers, recently said that he is considered a "true star" among Louisiana corporate lawyers, a sentiment with which he heartily agrees. For more than 25 years, he has been an Adjunct Faculty member of both the Tulane and LSU Law Schools, where he has taught the courses in Securities Regulation and Corporation Finance. He also spent eight years as a member of the Planning Committee of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute.

Andy has served as Chairman of the Corporate Laws Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association's Section on Corporate and Business Law since 1998, and is a former Chairman of the Section. He has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of several private and public companies including Avondale Industries, Inc., Campo's, Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. (now PHI, Inc.), the Association for Corporate Growth, T. L. James & Co., and the Louisiana Partnership for Technology and Innovation. He is a member of the American Law Institute, Louisiana Bankers Association, Book-of-the-Month Club, Quarterly Paperback Book Club, History Book Club and Audio Book Club. His favorite female celebrities are Anne Bancroft (1931-2005), Reba McIntyre, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Helen Mirren.