James F. Coffey has served as Advent's Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since February 2021, after acting as the company's outside legal counsel beginning in 2018. He has more than thirty years of experience in corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and intellectual property, and previously served as general counsel to HT-PEM fuel-cell company Trenergi from 2013 to 2017. He earned an LL.M. in corporate law from New York University School of Law and a J.D. from the New England School of Law.