Helen Sterling Coburn

Helen is a corporate and securities attorney at Bernstein Shur, where she co-chairs the firm’s private capital group. In that role, she counsels start-up companies raising investment capital and also represents investors deploying funds.* Helen is committed to supporting companies that embrace conscious business principles (whether as benefit corporations or otherwise) and helping Maine build a diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem. Helen is also on the Board of Directors of Startup Maine, Inc., as well as the advisory board of several Maine-based enterprises. She was actively involved with the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project during law school, and worked as a corporate immigration paralegal in San Francisco, CA prior to law school. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a JD from Boston College Law School. She lives in Cumberland, Maine with her husband and an energetic toddler.