Andrea Cohen

Professional Experience

Prior to joining Rimon, Andrea Cohen practiced with Morrison & Foerster LLP, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, and Nixon Peabody LLP, and has served as counsel for dozens of investment funds, institutional investors and start-up companies. She maintains a significant focus on clean energies and related sustainability technologies and is well-recognized in the venture capital financing landscape, maintaining deep relationships with both companies and their investors. Ms. Cohen has been commended by clients as “a well-prepared and commercially sophisticated lawyer” in each of each of the 2008 and the 2009 Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the Investment Funds: Venture Capital (Band 2) category.

Ms. Cohen advises clients in the management and operation of their businesses, entry and exit strategies, real and potential litigation, tax structuring, debt, new market and other tax credit structures and royalty streams. She has represented issuers and investors in more than 500 transactions with aggregate value over $60 billion, including public securities offerings, public/private and private mergers and acquisitions and privately-placed financings.

Ms. Cohen has been a member of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Clean Tech Advisory Council, director of the BayBio Institute, member of the advisory board of Astia, member of the Northern California Asia Society’s Program Committee. She is active in business and trade groups including the U.S. Department of Commerce’s clean energy efforts and a founding member and co-chair of the Investments sub-committee of the Institutional Investors Committee of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section. Ms. Cohen has published in the United States and abroad in matters relating to private equity, related fundraising and Delaware business law. 

She believes in providing value to clients by giving thoughtful advice, outstanding service and controlled costs to fit the needs of the organization. Areas of expertise include corporations, partnerships, LLCs, securities law, and corporate governance.

Ms. Cohen received her Baccalaureate degree in Philosophy and Art History from Boston University, her juris doctor from Northeastern University School of Law, and MBA degree from Northeastern University Graduate School of Business.

Bars & Courts

• Admitted to the State Bar of California

Education

• Northeastern University Master of Business Administration
• Northeastern University Juris Doctor
• Boston University Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Art History