Andrea E. Kokonis

Andrea E. Kokonis oversees SOCAN’s legal team. She has been with SOCAN for more than a decade and during that time has been involved in all aspects of SOCAN business, including music licensing, copyright enforcement and tariff matters before the Copyright Board of Canada. Prior to joining SOCAN, Andrea practiced at Torys LLP and Fasken Martineau LLP, specializing in intellectual property law. While in private practice, Andrea represented a range of clients in intellectual property and commercial litigation. Andrea has appeared before the Federal Court of Canada and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. She is a registered trade-mark agent and a member of the Canadian Bar Association and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. She is a current member of the CBA National Copyright Committee and she formerly served on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Intellectual Property Review (CIPR). Andrea is also the Chair of the Law Society of Ontario’s annual in-house counsel summit (2017-2020) and Assistant Course Director for the McGill Copyright Master Class 2020. Andrea received her law degree from Queen’s University, and her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto (Victoria University).