Bartow, Nicole

Nicole Bartow is Chief Litigation Counsel at Rivian Automotive, LLC.  Rivian exists to create products and services that help our planet transition to carbon neutral energy and transportation, and in support of this mission Rivian designs, develops, and manufactures category-defining EVs and sells them directly to customers in the consumer and commercial markets.  At Rivian, Nicole leads the team that manages the company’s litigation across a wide range of substantive areas including commercial matters and contracts, intellectual property, regulatory and competition, consumer rights/protection, torts/personal injury, real estate and securities.  Rivian’s Product Defense and Legal Operations legal functions also report to Nicole.

Before joining Rivian, Nicole worked on the in house legal teams at other tech companies and at law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Nicole earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her J.D. from Berkeley Law.

Away from wok, Nicole enjoys watching sports and spending time with her family, especially skiing and snowboarding in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.