Steven H. Cohen

Known in capital markets for successfully structuring and negotiating complex loan facilities, Steven has a broad range of finance and securitization experience, including working in-house at legal departments of global financial and technology corporations as well as in private practice. Core areas of his counsel include corporate trust, mortgage- and asset-backed securitizations, restructurings and workouts, hedge fund/private equity debt, Dodd-Frank and other bank regulatory issues, litigation management and general corporate matters.

Steven recently served as a senior legal consultant to The Bank of New York Mellon, where he advised its corporate trust department on such business products as asset-backed securities, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, document custody, escrows and reinsurance trusts. Steven negotiated transaction documents and was responsible for outside counsel management, Reg AB compliance, litigation and regulatory matters.

An experienced securitization finance legal counselor who has worked with such financial institutions as Citigroup, a multibillion dollar hedge fund affiliate of UBS, and IBM Credit Corporation, Steven had an extended tenure serving as executive director and counsel to Portigon AG (formerly WestLB). While at the German-based banking institution, he offered legal counsel to the asset-backed securitization and financial institution departments on all phases of originating loan facilities backed by mortgage and asset-backed receivables, and capital call obligations of investors in private equity and hedge funds. Steven also monitored and implemented Dodd-Frank and other bank regulatory initiatives.