Cohen & Gresser LLP

Global Managing Partner: Lawrence T. Gresser

Firm Overview: 

Cohen & Gresser is an international law firm with offices in New York, Paris, Washington, DC, and London. The firm has an outstanding record of success in high-stakes and high-profile litigation, investigations, and transactions for its clients, including major financial institutions and companies across the world. C&G attorneys have superb credentials, and are committed to providing the efficiency and personal service of a boutique law firm along with the quality and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the best firms in the world. The firm currently has 84 lawyers across its four offices. Firm co-founder Lawrence T. Gresser is the global managing partner of the firm.

Opened in 2018, C&G’s London office provides legal services to clients around the world. The London team represents investment managers, financial institutions, global companies, family offices, and individuals in a variety of disciplines. On the transactional side, the team represents clients in all aspects of investing and investments, restructurings, and divestitures. The commercial litigation team also advises on a wide range of cross-border disputes, and is well-versed in funds, financial services, and insurance litigation in a number of jurisdictions, including offshore jurisdictions. The office's white collar defense and investigations team represents entities and individuals in complex economic crime, investigations, and regulatory matters. The London office works closely across practices with colleagues in New York and Paris, providing seamless support on sophisticated cross-border matters. Partner Daniel H. Mathias leads C&G's London office.

C&G’s New York office is the firm’s headquarters, with its lawyers practicing in areas including litigation & arbitration, white collar defense & regulation, corporate, tax, real estate, and IP, with a particular focus on M&A transactions, securities litigation, international arbitration, and regulatory and internal investigations. The New York team works closely with lawyers in the firm's overseas offices on cross-border transactions, litigation, and investigations, and regularly assist international clients doing business in the United States on a wide range of U.S. legal and regulatory matters. Firm co-founder Mark S. Cohen is the managing partner of the New York office.

C&G's Washington, DC office has advised clients on all aspects of U.S. antitrust law, including criminal antitrust investigations, civil litigation, compliance and regulatory matters in the federal agencies, and antitrust aspects of M&A transactions. The DC-based team also handles a wide range of commercial litigation, regulatory enforcement, and international trade matters. Melissa H. Maxman is the managing partner of the Washington, DC office.

Established in 2014, C&G’s Paris office provides comprehensive legal services to clients, including advising on corporate, employment, tax, financial services, white collar defense, and litigation-related matters. The firm's Paris attorneys work closely with the lawyers across the other offices on cross-border transactions, investigations, and litigation, in order to provide superior service to French and international clients. Partner Johannes Jonas is the managing partner of the office.

White Collar Defense and Regulation: 

C&G's UK White Collar Defense & Regulation practice handles clients’ most sensitive and complex regulatory, investigative, and criminal defense matters. As a full-service law firm, C&G offers multi-dimensional guidance that covers the full spectrum of needs for ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) and high-net-worth (HNW) individuals. The firm is also particularly aware of the requirement for discreet, effective advice and action to avoid, and where necessary deal with, investigative interest and risk.

Led by highly experienced, distinguished lawyers – including the former head of and a former senior prosecutor from the Serious Fraud Office and a leading barrister and King’s Counsel with recognised high-net-worth and defence experience – the practice has extensive expertise advising UHNW and HNW individuals on a diverse range of potential and actual issues.The team advises on conventional issues, which include investigations related to fraud, money laundering, corruption, market manipulation, market abuse, and insider trading. The team is often called upon to provide effective tactical advice regarding potential defence strategies and is able to call upon both defence experience at the highest level and rare insight into the focus, interests and procedures of law enforcement and regulatory agencies in the UK, U.S., and Europe.