International legislation agency Norton Rose Fulbright introduced right now that investment funds lawyer Joshua Cohen has joined the agency within the Chicago workplace as a associate.
Cohen advises shoppers within the formation, structuring and upkeep of open and closed-end personal funds, together with hedge funds, personal fairness and credit score funds, hybrid funds, fund of funds autos, liquid various mutual funds and scalable platforms for fund sponsors. He offers strategic recommendation to asset administration companies for seed capital transactions and sophisticated minority and majority investments, acquisitions and tendencies in present companies.
Earlier in his profession, Cohen was a Managing Director and the Common Counsel of Highbridge Capital Administration and the International Head of Alternate options Authorized for JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Administration. In these roles, Cohen managed the authorized affairs of Highbridge’s and JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Administration’s US$120 billion Alternate options platform which spans a broad vary of other funding methods and asset lessons, together with publicly traded fairness and credit score, personal fairness and credit score, actual property and infrastructure within the US, Europe and Asia. Extra lately, Cohen was a associate at Kirkland & Ellis after which Sidley Austin.
Jeff Cody, Norton Rose Fulbright’s US Managing Associate, mentioned:
“Josh is a wonderful addition to our funding funds group with worthwhile in-house and asset administration expertise that our shoppers will respect. His market information will improve our providing to monetary establishments shoppers globally, and I’m happy to welcome him to the agency.”
Sameer Ghaznavi, Norton Rose Fulbright’s Chicago Co-Associate-in-Cost, commented:
“Our Chicago workplace continues to expertise thrilling development, and Josh brings with him an in depth array of necessary fund capabilities that our shoppers search. It’s improbable to have Josh be a part of this workplace, which simply expanded considerably at 1045 on Fulton in Chicago’s vibrant Fulton Market District.”
Cohen, who additionally offers regulatory counseling beneath a number of federal legal guidelines and relevant company guidelines, mentioned:
“Norton Rose Fulbright’s main funding funds crew has attorneys on the earth’s key markets, highlighting the agency’s spectacular world attain. This can be a nice match for me and my observe, as I counsel shoppers on the total spectrum of fund formation and operations on a world scale.”
Licensed in Illinois and New York, Cohen obtained his legislation diploma from the College of Pennsylvania Carey Regulation College and his bachelor’s diploma from the College of Pennsylvania.
