Emily R. L. Cohen
Associate
ecohen@hselaw.com
tel: 585.231.1141
fax: 585.232.2152
Emily represents a wide variety of clients needing counsel in financing transactions in mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, restructurings, fund formations in addition to drafting sale-purchase agreements, operating and partnership agreements, and revolving credit and term loan facilities. Emily has negotiated and closed a number of sophisticated financings, both domestic and international, including syndicated institutional loans, preferred stock, mezzanine finance, real estate finance, project finance, asset-based finance, and small business loans for local startup businesses.
Prior to joining Harter Secrest & Emery, Emily worked in New York City at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
Professional & Civic Affiliations
- Member, New York State Bar Association
- Member, Monroe County Bar Association
- Council Member, Monroe County Bar Association Business Law Section
- Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Member, VLSP Emerging Leaders Committee
Honors & Awards
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Order of the Barristers Honor Society
- Jonathan M. Ault Prize for Excellence in Trial Advocacy
- Paul J. Hergenroeder Award for Excellence in Oral Advocacy
- Executive Board, Associate Coordinator, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2011-2012
- Associate Editor, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2010-2011
Publications
- Author, “LIBOR is Ending: What That Means and Why You Should Care,” Rochester Business Journal, November 4, 2019
Presentations
- Moderator, "Negotiating, Drafting, and Working with Bank Loan Documents," Monroe County Bar Association, March 5, 2019
- Presenter, "Get in the Zone: Opportunity Zone Investments" with HSE and the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, January 30, 2019
Admissions
- New York
Education
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
- University of Rochester, B.A.