Cohn, Andrew H.

Current Employment Position(s)

Co-Chair, Energy Law Group

Lawyer Overview

Andrew Cohn is a partner in the firm's Corporate and Transactional and Regulatory and Government Affairs Departments, a member of the Real Estate and Environmental Practice Groups, and a member of the Emerging Energy Technology Group. He joined the firm in 1980. He serves on the Real Estate Capital Management Committee and is co-chair of the firm's Energy Law Group. He is a former chair and member of the Executive Committee and a former chair of the Real Estate Department.

Practice

Mr. Cohn's practice includes real estate development and finance, equipment leasing, co-generation and waste recycling projects. He has handled major transactions in more than 20 states, involving the financing and development of office buildings, research and development facilities, shopping centers, hotels, warehouses and marinas. He also has extensive experience with leasing, management agreements, construction and ground leasing.

Among Mr. Cohn's real estate clients are Lowe's Companies, Medical Science Partners, Bose Corporation and Cabot Corporation. His energy clients include GDF/Suez, Ameresco, Energy Management, American Renewables, Intercontinental Energy, and Cape Wind. He has handled a large number of major local and regional development projects, including Charles Square and Riverside Place in Cambridge, and the Bose headquarters building in Framingham.

Professional Activities

Mr. Cohn has served as the chair of the Real Estate Section of the Boston Bar Association, as well as chair of the BBA Commercial Real Estate Development and Finance Committee. He speaks frequently on construction lending, development matters and Massachusetts water-rights laws, and is a member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, where he serves on the Environmental Controls Committee. He also is a member of the Federal Energy Bar Association.

Mr. Cohn was a fellow at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, a Russell Sage Foundation fellow in law and social science, a teaching fellow at Harvard University and a research fellow at University College in Nairobi, Kenya.

He is a member of the Yale Law School Association of Massachusetts and has served as regional representative of the school's alumni association.

Honors and Awards

• Member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers
• Listed in current editions of The Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in American Law and Who's Who in America
• Recognized in the 2004-2011 issues of Boston Magazine as a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer")

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate
• Cleantech and Energy
• Telecommunications
• State and Local Tax
• Corporate and Transactional
• Regulatory and Government Affairs
• Environmental
• International
• Distressed Real Estate Solutions

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Estate & Gift Taxation, International Telecommunications, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Real Estate Law, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Telecommunications, Transactions, Wireless Communications, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts

Education

• Yale Law School, 1975
  JD
• Harvard University, 1972
  PhD
• Harvard University, 1970
  MA
• University of Pennsylvania, 1966
  BA, History
  Honors: with honors

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