Andrew John Howard

Advising clients across a variety of industries such as hospitality, manufacturing, real estate development and management, health care, and retail on the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program, including evaluating eligibility requirements, restrictions, and exclusions. Advising clients, including a Fortune 500 consumer food products company, a major public university, and an industrial sterilization solutions provider for the medical device, pharmaceutical, commercial, and food industries, with Defense Production Act issues. Outside government contracts counsel to a Fortune Global 5 company. Special M&A counsel to a UK private equity firm in the acquisition of a military intelligence and consultancy firm with operations in Europe, the U. S., and the Middle East. Counsel to one of the nations leading health care companies in connection with Medicaid and other managed-care contracts in more than a dozen states. Outside government contracts counsel to a Nasdaq company. Counsel to four technology companies that were sued under the False Claims Act; the suits were dismissed with prejudice after pre-answer motions. Government contracts counsel to a Fortune 1000 company for preventing disclosure of privileged commercial information in response to a third-party FOIA request. Government contracts counsel to an information technology equipment manufacturer for advice and compliance with domestic source restrictions in federal construction and supply contracts. Counsel to a defense contractor for bid protest and trade secret protection issues. Government contracts counsel to a defense testing company for the divestiture and commercial sale of a low-level nuclear radiography machine. Government contracts counsel to a national energy company for the negotiation of gas supply contracts. Government contracts counsel to a leading national health care services company, assisting in the preservation of trade secret and proprietary information, administrative protests, and appeals in connection with various states managed health care programs. Government contracts counsel to a regional hospital authority in a facility reconstruction funded partly by public assistance grants administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance and Emergency Relief Act.