Executive Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel
Koblenz
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Andrew D. Koblenz is the National Automobile Dealers Association's vice president and general counsel. He directs the association's Legal and Regulatory Group, which represents NADA and dealer interests before federal agencies. Koblenz supervises a staff of six attorneys specializing in franchise and state law, corporate law and federal regulatory affairs. As NADA's assistant secretary, he prepares and maintains corporate records and the minutes of the board of directors meetings and supervises elections of NADA officers and directors.
Prior to his current position, Koblenz was vice president, industry affairs from June 2001 to February 2006, directing the activities of NADA's Industry Relations and Industry Analysis departments, as well as the association’s American Truck Dealers Division.
Previously, he served as NADA’s executive director and special counsel for industry affairs for two years, representing the interests of franchised automobile dealers in policy, operational and other discussions with vehicle manufacturers. In that role, he helped oversee the operations of the Industry Affairs Group and was a liaison to the association's communications, legal, regulatory and legislative departments.
Before joining NADA, Mr. Koblenz served for five years as a senior attorney with the American Automobile Manufacturers Association. There, he advised the association on a variety of issue areas including sales, credit, leasing, and finance law, product safety and liability, intellectual property and benefits and taxation.
From 1990 through 1994, Mr. Koblenz was a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Richardson, Berlin & Morvillo where he specialized in corporate and securities matters.
Mr. Koblenz attended Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. and received his B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, in 1978. In 1981, he received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Mr. Koblenz is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Law Institute.