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New York,
New York
10154
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Miriam
L.
Cohen
Partner
and
Co-Chair, Commercial Finance Practice Group
Miriam Cohen represents financial institutions in all aspects of commercial finance, including asset-based lending and secured transactions. Ms. Cohen has structured, documented and negotiated transactions ranging from facilities to closely-held businesses to large multiborrower and syndicated transactions, including sponsor groups and public companies. Her experience includes workouts, restructurings, debtor-in-possession financing, trade finance and factoring.
Ms. Cohen was selected by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to assist in revamping its working capital guarantee program, and she worked closely with the Export-Import Bank to revise the documentation relating to the program. In addition, she has worked with major investment companies in structuring transactions where credit support is essential.
Ms. Cohen has lectured on the issues involved in documenting commercial finance transactions, the rights and remedies of secured parties and intellectual property issues arising in secured finance transactions.
Publications/Speeches
- Speaker, The 21st Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Conference, Punta Cana (November 12-14, 2009)
- Panelist, NYIC Women’s Division Hot Topics: Credit and Legal Issue, New York, New York (September 19, 2007)
- Speaker, Trends in Asset Based Lending, London (June 6, 2007)
Affiliations
- Member, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
- Member, Turnaround Management Association
- Member, Association for Corporate Growth
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Member, New York Bar Association
- Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Distinctions
- Named "New York Super Lawyer" in Securities & Corporate Finance and Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights by Law & Politics (2007)
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Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1986, cum laude Articles Editor, The Probate Law Journal Note: “The Impact of Changes in the Tax Law on Marital Settlements”
Brooklyn College, B.A., 1983, summa cum laude
New York, 1987
Massachusetts, 1987
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