Rikisha Collins

Associate

Recent Publication:

Considerations for Public Companies Developing a Digital Asset Treasury Strategy [Alert]

Kathy Jaffari, Mehrnaz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins discuss the increasing number of public companies holding digital assets and the considerations they should take when holding cryptocurrency on their balance sheets.

Rikisha is dedicated to helping clients solve their problems. She advises emerging and seasoned companies on securities, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and other general corporate matters. She has significant experience with SEC and exchange disclosure and reporting.

Rikisha received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in political science from Florida State University and her juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. While attending law school, she served as the managing editor of the Georgetown Journal for Poverty Law and Policy and as a student intern for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law in their Fair Housing and Community Development Project.

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Experience

Served as counsel to BTIG, LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research, and related brokerage services, as sales agent, in connection with its $20 million at-the-market offering by Bullfrog AI Holdings, Inc., a digital biopharmaceutical company focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning.


Represented Presbyterian Senior Living, a nonprofit retirement and senior care services organization, in its sale of the real property and operating assets of Windy Hill Village, a continuing care retirement community, to subsidiaries of Continuum Healthcare.


Represented Utz Quality Foods, LLC (NYSE: UTZ) and certain of its affiliates in the $167.5 million sale of certain assets and brands to Our Home™, an operating company of Better-for-You brands that includes Real Food From the Ground Up®, Popchips®, and Food Should Taste Good® (Our Home). Under the agreement, affiliates of Our Home purchased the Good Health® and R.W. Garcia® brands (including the entities that owned such brands); the Lincolnton, NC, and Lititz, Pa., manufacturing facilities; and certain related assets.


Represented Fiduciary Services Group, LLC, whose subsidiary PCS Retirement, LLC is a retirement plan recordkeeper focused on the ERISA and non-ERISA markets, in a merger and sale transaction with Lee Equity Partners, a growth-oriented middle market private equity firm.


Represented Presbyterian Senior Living and its subsidiary, Pine Run Village, Inc., in the $80.6 million acquisition from Doylestown Hospital of substantially all of the assets of a continuing care retirement community that included Pine Run Retirement Community and Pine Run Lakeview.


Represented Bravo Mining Corp. (TSXV:BRVO), a Canada- and Brazil-based mineral exploration company, in connection with its shelf prospectus offering of common shares and follow-on private placement of common shares for aggregate gross proceeds of C$25.5 million.


Represented Lung Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for life-threatening lung conditions, in its $90 million "sign and close" merger with Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALRN) and a concurrent $18 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) transaction.


Represented Brooklyn Data Company in its sale to Velir, a digital marketing agency owned by Stella Point Capital.


Represented Continuum Foods, a start-up food manufacturer, in its acquisition of the assets related to the “Original Trenton Cracker” (OTC) oyster cracker business from specialty food manufacturer Panorama Foods, Inc.


News

36 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Named Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

June 02, 2025

Selection to Super Lawyers is based on peer nominations and evaluations are combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Publications

Considerations for Public Companies Developing a Digital Asset Treasury Strategy [Alert]

October 23, 2025

Kathy Jaffari, Mehrnaz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins discuss the increasing number of public companies holding digital assets and the considerations they should take when holding cryptocurrency on their balance sheets.

Revisiting the Rules: SEC Executive Compensation Roundtable [The Legal Intelligencer]

September 23, 2025

Kathy Jaffari, Naz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins discuss the SEC’s recent roundtable on executive compensation disclosure requirements in The Legal Intelligencer.

From Fragmentation to Framework: SEC, CFTC, and Nasdaq Seek to Advance Crypto Regulatory Framework [Alert]

September 11, 2025

Kathy Jaffari, Mehrnaz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins discuss the SEC and CFTC's unified crypto regulatory framework and Nasdaq's proposed rules for trading tokenized securities.

SEC Swiftly Launches Project Crypto [Alert]

August 06, 2025

Rikisha Collins, Kathy Jaffari, and Mehrnaz Jalali discuss the SEC's newly launched Project Crypto, which aims to create clear regulations for the digital asset market.

Crypto Currents: Rundown of Crypto Task Force Roundtables [The Legal Intelligencer]

July 29, 2025

Kathy Jaffari, Mehrnaz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins discuss the SEC’s crypto task force roundtables in The Legal Intelligencer, which focuses on developing a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets.

The New Presidential Administration Ushers in Significant Changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission [The Legal Intelligencer]

April 25, 2025

Kathy Jaffari, Mehrnaz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins co-authored an article in The Legal Intelligencer analyzing the evolving priorities and actions of the SEC under the Trump administration.

Long-Awaited SEC Final Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures Face Legal Scrutiny

April 25, 2024

Kathy Jaffari, Naz Jalali, and Rikisha Collins discuss the final rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on climate-related disclosures in The Legal Intelligencer.

SEC Adopts Final Rule for Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures [Alert]

March 21, 2024

The SEC has adopted a final rule on climate-related disclosures. Seth Popick provides a brief summary of the requirements and what to expect next.

Final Rules on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, Shell Companies, and Projections [Alert]

February 08, 2024

Jeremy Garvey, Seth Popick, and Rikisha Collins discuss new SEC rules that augment investor protections in initial public offerings by SPACs and in de-SPAC transactions.

What’s Next in ESG for Public Companies to Know? Global Sustainability Disclosure Standards Proposed

December 06, 2023

Kathy Jaffari and Rikisha Collins discuss the inaugural financial reporting standards (IFRS) unveiled by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

SEC Adopts Final Rules on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance and Incident Disclosure

July 27, 2023

Cozen O’Connor’s multidisciplinary Technology, Privacy & Data Security practice discusses the new rules, their reporting requirements, and when they go into effect.

Compliance With SEC Pay Versus Performance Rules Quickly Approaching

November 04, 2022

Mehrnaz Jalali, Paul Hallgren, and Rikisha Collins discuss the pay versus performance rule adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 25 in The Legal Intelligencer.

The Final Rule on Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation Has Arrived [Alert]

October 28, 2022

The SEC has adopted the final rule on recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation.

SEC Revisits Proposed Rule on Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Exec Compensation

September 12, 2022

Kathy Jaffari and Rikisha Collins discuss the clawback rule proposed in July 2015 that was aimed to strengthen the disclosures and standards for recovery of erroneously awarded compensation by publicly listed companies.

Public Companies Brace Yourselves: SEC Issues Game-Changing Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures

April 25, 2022

Mehrnaz Jalali and Rikisha Collins authored an article in The Legal Intelligencer discussing the SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related disclosures and the roles that public companies play in addressing climate change and sustainability.

SEC Issues Proposed Rules For Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures [Alert]

March 23, 2022

Kathy Jaffari and Rikisha Collins discuss the SEC's proposed amendments to Regulation S-K and Regulation S-X to “enhance and standardize registrant’s climate-related disclosures for investors.”

Ceres Guidance for Engaging on Climate Risk Governance and Voting on Directors [Alert]

February 07, 2022

Kathy Jaffari and Rikisha Collins discuss the top 10 guidance based on TCFD “governance” recommended disclosures and the net-zero company benchmark as well as climate action 100+ net-zero company benchmark indicators.

A Look Back and A Glimpse Forward: The SEC’s Agenda [The Legal Intelligencer]

January 24, 2022

Kathy Jaffari and Rikisha Collins authored an article in The Legal Intelligencer that addresses how the initiatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) 2021 rulemaking agenda were instituted, and discusses what to expect from the SEC in 2022.

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2021
  • Florida State University, B.S., summa cum laude, 2017

Awards & Honors

Pennsylvania Super Lawyers "Rising Star," 2025

  • Pennsylvania