Professional Biography
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Andrew Bor Partner

  • Seattle

    D +1.206.359.8577

    F +1.206.359.9577

    Seattle

    1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900

    Seattle, WA 98101-3099

    +1.206.359.8577

    ABor@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

Andrew Bor, a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice, has over 35 years of experience providing counsel in the areas of corporate governance, securities regulation, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs. He also handles significant strategic assignments for a number of public companies, boards of directors and special committees, including advising on governance and oversight, relationships with activist shareholders, proxy contests, evaluating strategic alternatives and responding to acquisition proposals.

Andrew works with leading public companies such as Blucora, Esterline Technologies, IDACORP, Itron, Outerwall, PACCAR, Puget Sound Energy and Weyerhaeuser, among others. Representing both issuers and underwriters, he has served as the lead attorney on over one hundred fifty public debt and equity offerings.

Andrew has been recognized as one of Washington’s top Corporate/Commercial lawyers every year since 2004 by Chambers USA, which has described him as “highly regarded as an eminent corporate securities lawyer" and "admired by market sources for his perceptive, meticulous and hard-working nature."

Chambers 2023-bl2024 Lawyer of the Year

Ranked by Chambers USA & Best Lawyers

Named “Corporate Governance Law Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America, 2024
Ranked by Chambers USA 19 Years in a Row

Professional Recognition

  • Named the Best Lawyers' "Lawyer of the Year" for Securities / Capital Markets Law, 2016, 2019; Corporate Governance Law, 2017, 2024
  • Listed in Who’s Who Legal USA – Corporate Governance
  • Listed in Chambers USA, “America’s Leading Lawyers” for Corporate: Mergers & Acquisitions, 2005 – 2023
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law; Securities Regulation, 2003 – 2024
  • Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine, “Washington’s Super Lawyers", 2003 – 2020
  • Listed in Lawdragon 500: Leading Lawyers in America
  • Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
    (AV®, BV® and CV® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.)

Professional Leadership

  • The Ministry of Privatization of the Czech Republic, Legal Advisor, 1993
  • American Bar Association, Ad Hoc Committee on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia

Related Employment

  • Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLC), New York, NY, 1980 – 1982

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Bar and Court Admissions

  • Washington

Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1980, Executive Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review
  • University of Washington, B.S., Cellular and Molecular Biology, 1977
  • Harvard University, A.B., Philosophy, cum laude, 1975

Languages

  • Czech