Executive Partner, Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC
Neil Cooper is a co-founder and Executive Partner of Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC (RCCB), a fast growing boutique law firm of 65 lawyers founded in 2012. RCCB attorneys think and act like entrepreneurs and business people, while serving a range of sophisticated clients in diverse industries, including a wide variety of both technology and traditional companies. Neil’s legal practice focuses on business transactions and corporate law matters, and he effectively serves as outside general counsel to many of his clients. He advises clients on structuring, negotiating, and documenting “bet-your-company” mergers and acquisitions, finance transactions, commercial transactions, and a broad range of business agreements, with emphasis on emerging growth and middle market companies, entrepreneurs, executives and investors in a variety of industries.
Neil also counsels founders, executives, and investors with respect to equity positions, governance, employment arrangements, and agreements among investors. Neil serves on the Advisory Board of the Satell Institute and the Board of the Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce. He has been named to the Philadelphia Titan 100 list in 2022 and 2023 and selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, Business and Corporate, from 2017 to the present.
Neil began his career as a member of the Business & Finance Section of the international law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He then joined EXE Technologies, a leading provider of supply chain execution software, which grew to over $100 million in revenues, 800 employees, and operations in 15 countries during his tenure as General Counsel. He was also the founder and Managing Member of Cooper Law Group, LLC, a firm that he founded and built to respond to the particular needs of emerging growth, technology, life science and middle market companies. Neil received his J.D., 1995, from Columbia University School of Law, and his A.B., 1991, from Harvard College. He was also a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1991 – 1992.
