DLA Piper has a strategic alliance with The Cohen Group, through which The Cohen Group helps clients locate, capitalize and achieve global business and strategic opportunities. Specific services include:

Advice and Assistance - Strategic advice to corporate leadership and hands-on assistance in marketing, regulatory affairs and related matters. These advisory services include:

• Providing business and political intelligence on developments and trends that could affect the client, giving the client a competitive advantage in exploiting opportunities and avoiding pitfalls.
• Opening and sustaining lines of communication with political, business, and financial leaders who could affect the client's success in the market, and assisting the client to build and enhance its own network of relationships in the market.
• Identifying and assessing potential markets and analyzing the political, legal, and regulatory factors that will affect the client's ability to successfully enter and operate in the market.
  Hands-on assistance with business development to grow revenue and profits, working closely with the client's team to identify and actively pursue opportunities.

Transactions - deal sourcing and capital raising activities through all stages to successful deal closure. These transactional services include:

• Working with clients seeking acquisition targets, strategic partners or divestiture opportunities by identifying attractive purchase targets or potential buyers.
• Conducting thorough company due diligence, providing in-depth analysis of the company's competitive strengths within the market in question, drawing upon The Cohen Group's strong knowledge base and wealth of contacts in many sectors.

The Cohen Group is led by:

• William Cohen, former US Senator and Secretary of Defense
• Joseph Ralston, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and US Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• James Loy, former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security and Commandant of the US Coast Guard
• Paul Kern, former head of the US Army Materiel Command and Senior Advisor for Army Research, Development, and Acquisition.
• Lord George Robertson, former UK Secretary of State for Defence and NATO Secretary General
• Harry Raduege, former director of the US Defense Information Systems Agency

These leaders collaborate with and are supported by a seasoned team which has spent many years at the most senior levels of The White House, the Defense Department, the State Department, the House and Senate, the British Government, the Chinese Government, and other US agencies.