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Eric A. Koester is an associate in the Cooley Business department and a member of the Emerging Companies practice group. He joined the firm in 2008 and is resident in the Seattle office.
Mr. Koester's practice focuses on emerging growth technology companies, with a particular interest in clean and digital technologies. He counsels his clients in all areas of venture capital and bank financings, technology licensing transactions, corporate partnerships, commercial agreements, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Koester was an associate at Heller Ehrman. Before beginning his law practice, he held financial and accounting-related positions at Morgan Stanley and Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. While attending law school, he worked for the Enforcement Division of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., as a Summer Associate at the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., and in the legal department of the Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA), where he focused on issues of antitrust in the healthcare contracting industry. Mr. Koester has also maintained an independent consultancy practice authoring numerous publications relating to environmental and emerging technologies.
Mr. Koester is an accomplished author, with publications including:
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Green Entrepreneur Handbook, CRC Press, Expected Fall 2010
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What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High-Tech Business Venture, Taylor & Francis Press, 01.2009
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Startup Lawyers, ABA Section of the Business Law Young Lawyers Forum, 08.2008
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How to Structure, Finance, and Fund Your Clean Technology Venture, ANTEC, 05.2008
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Clean Technology Investments: Tremendous Opportunities and Unique Challenges for Venture Lawyers, Preferred Returns, ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Venture Capital and Private Equity, 03.2007
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VoIP Goes the Bad Guy: Understanding the Legal Impact of the use of Voice over IP communications in cases of NSA Warrantless Eavesdropping, The John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law, Volume 24, Number 2, Winter.2007
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Can you really kill two birds with one stone? The Future of the Waste-to-Energy (WTE) industry as an Energy & Environmental Policy Decision, Environmental Law Report, Volume 37, Number 1, Winter 2007
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Utilizing Technology to Manage Corporate Environmental Initiatives, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Conference, 06.2003
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Electronic Nose Technology: Update of E-Nose Technology & Analysis of Opportunities for Use in Environmental Industries, Global Plastics Environmental Conference, 02.2003
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Opportunities to Utilize Electronic Nose Technology in the Environmental and Plastics Industries, Global Plastics Environmental Conference, 02.2002
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Friendly old PET vs. cheap new PET, Materials World, 09.1997
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The Changing World of Plastics Recycling: Trends, Technologies, Markets and Solutions 1996-2000, Mastio & Associates, 1997
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HDPE Recycling: A Look at the Past, Present and Future, MEGO Consulting, 1995
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PET Recycling: A Look at the Past, Present and Future, MEGO Consulting, 1995
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The Present & Future of Recycling: PET, HDPE, Scrap Automobiles, Tires, Fly Ash Disposal, SKT Midwest, 1994
Mr. Koester earned his J.D., with honors from George Washington University School of Law, where he was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar. He earned his B.S., with honors, in Business Administration from Marquette University. In 2006, he was selected as the "Student Bar Association President of the Year," by the ABA. He is also a Certified Public Accountant in Washington State.
Mr. Koester is admitted to practice in Washington and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association.
Education- George Washington University Law School
JD, 2006, With honors - Marquette University
BS Business Administration, 1999, With honors
Admissions
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Washington State Bar Association
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