Audra Cohen

General Practice, Consumer & Retail, Corporate Governance, Cybersecurity, Energy Transition, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Family Office and Business Advisory, Latin America M&A and Joint Ventures, Media & Telecommunications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Power & Utilities, Privacy, Private Equity, Shareholder Activism

Audra is Co-Managing Partner of S&C’s General Practice Group globally and serves as a partner in its M&A and Corporate Governance practices. She also serves as a co-head of the Firm’s Consumer & Retail and Power and Utility Groups. Audra has extensive experience representing clients on a broad range of merger and acquisition and complex corporate transactions and in other special situations, including public company mergers, private company transactions, joint ventures and spinoffs, and advising boards of directors on corporate governance, activism and takeover defense matters.

Audra has advised clients across the industry spectrum, including: Adient, Albertsons, Alex Hernandez, Andeavor, AT&T, Avon Products, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Collective Brands, Connecticut Water Service, Cronos, Diageo, DiamondHead, Dynegy, Enbridge, Flowserve, FTX, Haleon, Hershey Foods, Intercontinental Exchange, Kraft Foods Group, LSC Communications, NBTY, Panera Bread, Pepco, Quality Care Properties, Riverstone Holdings and Pattern Energy Group Holdings, Ron Shaich, RR Donnelley & Sons, SciPlay, Sempra, Starbucks, TelevisaUnivision, Wachovia and ZF Friedrichshafen.

She has been recognized by Chambers USA for Corporate/M&A, as one of the “45 Under 45” best young women lawyers in the Am Law 200, for co-leading the “Deal of the Year” for the Kraft merger with Heinz, Lawdragon “500 Leading Dealmakers in America,” a “Top Woman Attorney in New York” by New York Super Lawyers, and a “Leading Practitioner, Mergers & Acquisitions” by Euromoney Legal Media Group Expert Guides, Women in Business Law.

The George Washington University Law School (JD, 1992); University of Washington (BA, 1989).