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d'ensemble

Miriam Cohen represents financial institutions in all aspects of commercial finance, including asset-based lending and secured transactions. Miriam has structured, documented and negotiated transactions ranging from facilities to closely-held businesses to large multi-borrower and syndicated transactions.

Miriam’s experience includes financings to borrowers backed by sponsor groups and public companies which facilities are used to fund acquisitions and working capital.  Her experience also includes workouts, restructurings, debtor-in-possession financing, trade finance, loans to lenders, cross-border transactions and factoring. 

Miriam has considerable experience representing lenders and borrowers in syndicated and bilateral financings backed by music-related assets.

Miriam 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.

Miriam has lectured on the issues involved in documenting commercial finance transactions, the rights and remedies of secured parties, supply chain finance and intellectual property issues arising in secured finance transactions.

  • SFNet Supply Chain Symposium
    Panelist
  • NYIC Women’s Group on COVID-related issues
    Panelist
  • 6th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium
    Speaker
    Sponsored
  • The 21st Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Conference
    Speaker
    Seminars
  • NYIC Women’s Division Hot Topics: Credit and Legal Issue
    Panelist
    Seminars

Éducation

  • Boston University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Articles Editor, The Probate Law Journal
    Note: “The Impact of Changes in the Tax Law on Marital Settlements”
  • Brooklyn College, B.A., summa cum laude

Admission au barreau

  • New York
  • Massachusetts

Reconnaissance

  • Named "Executive of the Year" by the New York Institute of Credit (2022)
  • Named "Pioneer Icon" in commercial finance law in the inaugural edition of ABF Journal's Industry Icons Issue (2021)
  • Received the ORT Community Achievement Award (2015)
  • Named "New York Metro Super Lawyer" in Securities & Corporate Finance and Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights by Thomson Reuters (2007)

Affiliations

  • Member, Board of Directors, Secured Finance Network
  • Mentor, SFNet Mentorship Program for Finance Professionals
  • 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