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Biography

Andrea L. Kahn concentrates in the practice of municipal bond law, serving as bond counsel, underwriter counsel, and counsel to various other parties in public financing transactions. She has represented the firm as bond counsel on issues for the State of New Jersey and other state agencies and authorities, as well as numerous financings for counties, municipalities, school districts, and local authorities, including county improvement authorities, parking authorities, municipal utilities authorities, and other subdivisions of local government.

She has played a key role in developing numerous creative financing techniques, including the school lease program; the issuance of school bonds to refund certificates of participation issued in connection with lease‑purchase transactions; municipal and school cooperative projects; educational services commission and jointure commission financings; energy savings projects; textbook lease‑purchase financings; and the use of minibonds. Andrea also provides advice and assistance in connection with the implementation of public projects involving public bidding, contracting, land acquisition and sale, redevelopment and housing, and general budget and finance issues.

Andrea is a past President of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys. She is also a member and past Chair of the Local Government Law Section, a member of the School Law Committee and the Renewable Energy, Clean Tech and Climate Change Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, a member of the Section of Urban, State and Local Government Law of the American Bar Association, a member of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys, and a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. Andrea is also an Associate Member of the New Jersey School Boards Association and the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials.

In her private life, she has worked with many not‑for‑profit organizations, including currently serving as President of the League of Women Voters of the Greater New Brunswick Area and previously as a member of the State Board of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, among others. She is also a member of the North Brunswick Redevelopment Agency and Open Space Committee.

Andrea served as a New Jersey State Deputy Attorney General from 1975 through 1977, representing the New Jersey Housing Finance Agency and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, including the Division of Local Government Services, the government agency that oversees municipal finance in New Jersey.

She received her B.A. degree from Smith College in 1972 and graduated from Rutgers University Law School with honors in 1975, where she served as an Associate Editor of the Rutgers Camden Law Journal.

Andrea has lectured extensively and written numerous articles on municipal finance law. She has also assisted various groups in drafting and commenting on legislation and regulations impacting municipal finance and represented the Garden State Coalition of Schools as amicus curiae in litigation challenging the constitutionality of portions of the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act before the New Jersey Supreme Court.