High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andrew J. Sherman (born September 5, 1961) is a corporate and transactional lawyer, business school and law school professor, featured speaker, and author. Sherman is an internationally recognized expert on legal and strategic aspects of business growth with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, capital formation, franchising, and other types of intellectual property leveraging and growth strategies. Sherman is currently a senior partner at the Washington, DC office of Jones Day (a global law firm). Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor for the MBA programs at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University as well as at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. A prolific author, Sherman has written 18 books including Road Rules.