Andy Sandler
Andy Sandler
- Strategic Advisor
Biography
Andy Sandler is an entrepreneur, business leader and lawyer. He leads Temerity Capital Partners, the Sandler family office and private investment company, which invests in and advises early-stage companies developing new technologies in financial services. Andy is Board Chair of Temerity companies Asurity Technologies, which focuses on mortgage compliance technology, RiskExec, a leading fair lending analytics SaaS software provider, and Digital Pay, a cutting-edge payments technology provider. He is a senior partner at Mitchell Sandler, founder of Asurity Advisors, a financial services industry consulting firm and Asurity Academy, a compliance training and conference company. He previously founded and led the Buckley Sandler law firm and Treliant Risk Advisors which he sold in 2017.
Andy now focuses much of his time on sports team ownership and real estate development. He leads Temerity Baseball, which owns and operates three professional baseball teams: the Greensboro Grasshoppers, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers and Lexington Legends. He is actively engaged in stadium-adjacent mixed use and hotel development projects in each city where he owns teams.
Andy was named a Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year finalist for his representation of the Navajo Nation in breach of trust litigation with the United States in which Andy and his colleagues achieved a $554 million settlement for the Navajo. HousingWire has recognized Andy with its Vanguard Award, naming him “one of the biggest names in the housing industry” for his leadership roles in legal and advisory services and in building technology companies and Legal Times has called Andy a “Legal Visionary” for his law firm leadership.
Andy is the founder of The Sandler Family Foundation which focuses its philanthropy on health and welfare, social entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and inclusive democracy. He holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton School of Business, an M.A. from the University of Warwick (Rotary Foundation Fellow), and a B.A. from Union College. Andy and his wife Andrea, managing partner at Mitchell Sandler, find their greatest joy spending time with their five children and three grandchildren and traveling. When not at a ballpark, Andy is mostly likely to be found on a tennis court.
Fun Facts
Favorite Apps
Chess.com
Sonos
Kindle
Superpower
Building businesses
Favorite Thing to Binge Watch
Game of Thrones
Passions
Family
Baseball
Tennis
Previous Experience
Partner, Skadden, Leader of Consumer Financial Services Enforcement and Litigation Group
Chairman and Executive Partner, Buckley Sandler
Distinctions
“Legal Visionary,” Legal Times
“Deal Maker of the Year,” Legal Times
Recognized as a Band 1 practitioner in financial services regulation: consumer finance (litigation) (nationwide), Chambers USA
Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year nominee
Thought Leadership
Andy is a frequent speaker on a wide range of topics pertinent to his various business ventures, including community development in opportunity zones, multi-generational family businesses, and regulatory technology innovation.
Professional and Community Activities
Board Vice Chair – Cancer Support Community
Former Chair ABA Civil Rights Litigation Committee and Vice Chair ABA Banking Law Committee
Board Chair, Digital Pay
Board, White Mountain Acquisition Corp.
Advisor, Figure Technologies
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.B.A., Wharton School of Business
M.A., University of Warwick (U.K, Rotary Foundation Fellow)
B.A., Union College
Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
New York
Pennsylvania