Throughout his 42-year career in private practice as a transactional attorney — together with his personal experience as a real estate entrepreneur and his prior service as Managing Shareholder of Selzer Gurvitch — Andy has gained a deep understanding of the needs and difficulties faced by his clients.

Andy has been involved in a wide variety (and on all sides of) numerous commercial real estate and business transactions, including such trophy projects as the development of the Warner Theatre, development of Round Hill, VA (early in his career) and, more recently, the 700k sf “Armature” mixed-use development in the NOMA neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Andy concentrated for much of his career on representing credit unions and other institutional lenders in upper mid-market commercial real estate and C & I lending transactions. He was heavily involved in workouts, special assets, and REO’s (primarily for lenders), especially in the early 1990s and in the 2007 timeframe.

For many years, Andy ran a title company that handled complex commercial real estate transactions. He also represented one of the nation’s largest food brokers in several M & A transactions and a series of business acquisitions. Andy derived particular satisfaction helping land rich-cash poor clients to reposition, develop or dispose of their real estate — an undertaking that inevitably required empathy, strategic vision, intellectual curiosity, “out of the box” thinking, patience, and grit to produce a successful outcome.

Between 2016 and 2023, Andy divided his time between practicing law and managing Selzer Gurvitch, including throughout the extremely challenging Covid-19 pandemic. During that time, Andy was also working on a personal project, developing a prime tract of 11.5 acres of commercial zoned property on Route 1 in Beltsville, Maryland as a regional sales facility for Ryder, a 7-Eleven convenience store with gas pumps, and a parking facility.

Although no longer a shareholder (he retired as Managing Shareholder in 2023), Andy remains affiliated with the firm as its General Counsel. He holds an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia.