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Mr Ness Cohen
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Ness Cohen is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Real Estate group and is the Chairman of the Firm’s Real Estate practice in the Americas, based in New York. He specializes in real estate private equity and joint ventures as well as acquisitions, dispositions and financings involving real estate. His work also includes representing REITs, investment banks, insurance companies, real estate funds and developers in real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and real estate related transactions.
Education
New York University (B.A., Economics) 1993
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude 1998
Partner since 2007
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Ness Cohen‘s New York based real estate team at Clifford Chance provides the ‘right balance of law and commercial insight’, and is known for its representation of real estate funds on their transactional and investment work, including a strong roster of non-US entities, and its experience in portfolio transactions, and tax planning. An expert in real estate private equity and joint ventures, Cohen ‘is surrounded by an excellent team‘ which includes Jeanne Roig-Irwin and Eddie Frastai .
Comparative Guides
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Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Fintech
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate