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David Cohen

Position
David Cohen is a partner in Dentons’ Capital Markets practice. His practice covers a wide range of product areas, including public, listed eurobonds, private placements, EMTN programmes, CP programmes, high-yield bonds, loan participation notes, project bonds and structured products. He acts for a various market participants, including issuers (corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns), underwriters and trustees.
Career
Trained 1992-94 Clifford Chance, lawyer 1994-2003; partner Dentons (formerly SNR Denton, Denton Wilde Sapte).
Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales (training membership).
Education
University of Machester (LLB Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Debt capital markets
(Leading partners)At Dentons, the team is ‘extremely responsive and excellent technically with strong commercial acumen‘. The firm handles the full range of DCM work, but is particularly highly regarded for advice on GMTN and EMTN programmes, debut Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings, emerging markets transactions, green and sustainability-linked bonds, and corporate trustee matters. It also handles liability management for issuers and dealer managers in, and regulatory capital trades for bank, insurance and asset manager issuers. David Cohen leads the practice. He recently assisted a UK building society with its £5bn EMTN programme. Nick Hayday and emerging partner talent Victoria Wyer assisted an Indian private sector mortgage lender with issues concerning its $2.8bn MTN programme in light of the company’s merger. Cameron Half leads the US Securities practice in EMEA, focusing on SEC-registered, Rule 144A and Regulation S debt and equity offerings. Neil Dixon‘s broad practice includes insurance regulatory capital, hybrid bonds, and equity-linked debt deals. Specialist trustee lawyer Catriona ’Kitty’ Lloyd ‘really goes into bat for her clients‘.
London > Industry focus > Emerging markets
Dentons is sought after for its experience in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate M&A, and TMT projects in emerging markets. The work of the London group spans Africa, the Middle East, CEE, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the CIS region. The firm’s ‘fantastic team with great market and commercial knowledge‘ is led by head of banking and finance Paul Holland, who is an expert in export credit, trade finance and asset finance. Debt capital markets specialists Nick Hayday, Cameron Half, and David Cohen devote much of their time to deals in the developing world. Colm Ó hUiginn is ‘one of the genuine legal experts in the nascent green hydrogen sector’. John Inglis
is ‘an exceptional energy project finance lawyer in London, with a track record of successfully structuring and executing complex financing deals‘. Banking partner James Ingham advised an international bank on a $100m and €93m dual-currency facility agreement for The Government of The Republic of Kenya.
Lawyer Rankings
- Emerging markets London > Industry focus
- Leading partners London > Finance > Debt capital markets
- Debt capital markets London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Immigration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport