Devin Cohen Email & Phone Number

Morristown, Nj, Us

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

I concentrate my practice on advising business owners regarding a comprehensive spectrum of corporate activity, including:• Entity choice and formation• Shareholder/Operating Agreements• Buy/Sell Agreements• Corporate financing (both from financial institutions and private equity)• Drafting and negotiating custom business contracts• Mergers and AcquisitionsI also handle matters involving the buying, selling, leasing and financing of commercial real estate.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

I concentrate my practice on advising business owners regarding a comprehensive spectrum of corporate activity, including:• Entity choice and formation• Shareholder/Operating Agreements• Buy/Sell Agreements• Corporate financing (both from financial institutions and private equity)• Drafting and negotiating custom business contracts• Mergers and AcquisitionsI also handle matters involving the buying, selling, leasing and financing of commercial real estate.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

As a wealth strategist, I provided advice on complex estate, business, and other wealth planning issues. I worked with a team of specialists in investment management, trust and banking services to help clients achieve their financial objectives.

Hackensack, Nj, Us

• Represented clients in the purchase and sale of businesses and mergers. Prepared and negotiated asset/stock/merger agreements and ancillary documents, including promissory notes, security agreements, stock pledge agreements, confidentiality agreements and assignments of leases and contracts. Reviewed and analyzed due diligence.• Structured and formed business entities. Provided general corporate counsel. Prepared charters, by-laws and minutes.• Drafted and negotiated essential business contracts.• Advised clients with respect to estate and business planning, including advice on gift, estate, and inheritance taxes. Focused on integrating clients’ personal goals, such as asset protection, tax minimization, business needs, and investment and insurance planning, into a comprehensive plan. Prepared operating/shareholder/buy-sell agreements among business owners to achieve economic, management, and business succession planning goals.• Prepared wills, living wills, appointments of health care proxies, financial powers of attorney and certain special purpose trusts such as ILITs and special needs trusts.• Administered complex estates and trusts. Illustrative T&E matters include: administration of the estate of a Holocaust survivor with diverse assets; estate planning for a terminally-ill, divorced woman with a special needs child, and administration of her estate and the complex trusts created under her will.• Facilitated deals regarding the buying, selling, leasing and financing of commercial real estate.

•Litigated multi-billion dollar property damage and business loss claims relating to liability for aviation security failures in the 9/11 terrorist attacks•Researched legal issues regarding civil procedure, protective orders, parties’ discovery obligations including the requirement to produce privilege and redaction logs, whether federal statutes and regulations in the aviation industry preempt state tort laws, the scope of duty and standard of care owed to victims on the ground, the effect of collateral source offsets to damages on insurers’ subrogation claims, and property damage and business loss remedies•Drafted motions, legal memoranda, declarations, letters and complaints•Created deposition outlines and witness profiles in preparation for party, non-party and 30(b)(6) witness depositions•Reviewed, analyzed and summarized hundreds of thousands of pages of pre-trial discovery documents and deposition transcripts to develop case facts and arguments

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

•Researched and analyzed a variety of labor and employment law issues including: Title VII employment discrimination, violations of non-compete clauses in employment contracts, tortious interference with an employment contract, unfair labor practices, the Fair Labor Standards Act, employee benefits, employee termination, and collective bargaining agreements•Contested alleged OSHA and MSHA violations•Drafted interrogatories and discovery requests•Conducted research on challenging an administrative regulation that resulted in the retainer of a high-profile client•Wrote a successful closing letter brief for an arbitration regarding the termination of an employee for just cause

•Reviewed real estate title examinations for industry leading title company•Conducted online real estate title examinations•Assisted in the issuing of title insurance commitments•Streamlined, coordinated and supervised the billing, scanning, delivery and storage of real estate title examinations•Maintained regular correspondence with clients for troubleshooting and customer service

Jd, Law

Ba, Philosophy, Politics And Law