Andreas J. Meyer advises university, college, and healthcare leaders confronting matters where legal risk, political pressure, government oversight, and institutional mission intersect. His practice focuses on federal investigations and enforcement, civil rights compliance, research security, transformational initiatives and transactions, and other matters in which institutional reputation, funding, and leadership stability are at stake.
AJM Institutional Counsel and Strategy is a senior advisory practice built for institutions navigating challenges that do not fit neatly within a single legal specialty. Andreas works alongside in-house and outside counsel, helping executives and boards evaluate legal, regulatory, political, and operational considerations simultaneously rather than in isolation. Clients retain his judgment directly, and he coordinates the legal, regulatory, and government-relations teams that execute the resulting strategy.
Drawing on experience across corporate law, higher education, healthcare, governance, and public affairs, Andreas helps leaders translate specialized legal advice into strategic options they can evaluate and act upon. His work focuses particularly on the institutional risks that emerge in the spaces between disciplines, where legal answers alone are often insufficient.
Andreas began his career in the corporate practice of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher before serving as senior in-house counsel at the University of Southern California and Chapman University. His perspective is also informed by firsthand experience serving as an institutional leader and fiduciary. Andreas has served as Board Vice Chair of the OC Fair & Event Center, a California government agency, following appointment by Governor Jerry Brown, and as Board President of Equality California, one of the nation’s leading advocacy organizations. In 2025, Andreas and his husband founded the Loren and Andreas Meyer Pastoral Care Fund at the Hutchinson Regional Medical Foundation to expand hospital chaplaincy services in their local community.
Andreas serves as Special Counsel to the executive leadership of USC, advising on federal oversight, research security, and civil rights enforcement. He also provides strategic and legal guidance regarding USC’s participation in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games as host/operator of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Olympic Media Village.
Andreas serves as Outside General Counsel and Senior Strategic Advisor to Pitzer College, counseling the president, senior executives, and board of trustees on governance, regulatory matters, and institutional strategy. He also advises Cottage Health, the leading health system on California’s Central Coast, on governance and regulatory strategy.
Andreas received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Clarence Darrow Scholar and contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review. He earned his B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California, which he attended as a first-generation college student. He lives in Hutchinson, Kansas, with his husband Loren and their three dogs.