Andrew Hamilton focuses his practice on federal government contracts and financial assistance (grants and cooperative agreements). He has broad experience helping companies and not-for-profit organizations achieve their goals by winning, managing, and leveraging federal awards. His practice includes all events in the life cycle of an award, including competition issues, contract administration and regulatory counseling, and negotiation and drafting of special terms and clauses, licenses, and agreements mandated by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), such as novation agreements. He also has extensive investigation and litigation experience for claims, suspensions, terminations, business disputes, and allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse.

Andrew is a former attorney advisor at the USAID Office of General Counsel, where he focused on acquisition and federal financial assistance matters for a worldwide portfolio. He provided guidance on a range of government contract compliance issues including the FAR, the Aid Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR), Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCIs), cost principles, data rights, and fiscal and appropriations law.

Prior to his stint at USAID, Andrew worked in the government contracts practice groups of large DC law firms for almost a decade. Andrew was a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and began his career through the Attorney General’s Honors Program as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.