Andrew Tweedy

Mr. Tweedy is an Associate at Areté Capital Partners, where he is involved in both sponsor and fiduciary activities. He has extensive experience providing sponsor clients and their portfolio companies with commercial and investment banking services, including sell-side processes, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, dividend recapitalizations, and refinancings.

Prior to joining Areté, Mr. Tweedy was an Associate with J.P. Morgan’s Mid-Cap Financial Sponsors Group, where he covered middle-market private equity firms and family offices nationwide with fund sizes ranging from $250 million to over $5 billion. In this role, he evaluated debt and equity financing opportunities for over 120 sponsor-backed portfolio companies representing $45 billion of contemplated transaction value. In these transactions, Mr. Tweedy worked closely with sponsor and company management teams to conduct in-depth due diligence, analyze historical financial performance, model financial projections and valuations, evaluate competitive landscapes, and prepare internal and external presentation materials. These transactions spanned multiple industries, including industrials, business services, consumer, healthcare, technology, aerospace, and defense. During this time, he evaluated various debt financing structures, such as syndicated credit facilities, unitranche loans, asset-based loans, term loan B facilities, and ARR loans. He also worked on various equity financing solutions, including sell-side processes, continuation vehicles, equity private placements, and initial public offerings. Additionally, Mr. Tweedy supported the Global Banking Transaction Development team at J.P. Morgan, where he facilitated proprietary introductions between family- and founder-owned companies and private equity firms looking to make add-on acquisitions to existing platforms.

Mr. Tweedy earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with specializations in Finance and Economics from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with an Honors Distinction. While in school, he was a member of the Finance Honors Cohort, was Chief of Staff of Empower Mentoring, and had internships with J.P. Morgan, Nationwide Insurance, PNC Bank, and Rocket Mortgage.

Mr. Tweedy resides in Chicago and enjoys cooking, trying new restaurants, traveling, playing golf in the summer, skiing in the winter, and cheering on the Ohio State Buckeyes year-round.