<p>Brent Cohen represents investment banks, opportunity funds, and other institutional investors in transactions involving partnerships and joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, commercial lending, workouts, bankruptcy, and land use and development. He leads the Firm's Real Estate Practice in California.
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Over the last decade, Brent has represented investors and lenders in their most complicated investment and financing activities, including equity and preferred equity investments, shared appreciation loans, loan participations, mezzanine loans, and mixed debt/equity investments. In addition, Brent advises real estate clients on insolvency issues including complex loan and equity restructurings both inside and outside bankruptcy, foreclosures, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, and the sale and purchase of whole loans and loan portfolios. Regular clients have included Contrarian Capital, D.E. Shaw, Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Olympus Real Estate, and Westbrook Partners. Brent also has been involved in numerous bankruptcies on behalf of New West Federal Savings, Wells Fargo Bank, the Unsecured Creditors Committee for Equitec, and the Unsecured Creditors Committee for Polar Air Cargo.
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Brent serves on the national board of directors of the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute, a scientific research institute located in Rehovoth, Israel. Prior to joining Jones Day, he was the firmwide leader of the real estate group at Heller Ehrman.