DLA Piper has a strategic alliance with The Cohen Group to help clients identify and achieve global business and strategic opportunities. The Cohen Group's sector experience includes, but is not limited to:
- Aerospace and defense
- Biotechnology and pharmaceutical
- Financial services
- Homeland security
- Information technology, telecommunications and technology
- International trade and agriculture
- Property and real estate
- Strategic communications and message development
- Transportation and logistics
Specific client 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 to provide a competitive advantage by exploiting opportunities and avoiding pitfalls
- Opening and sustaining lines of communication with political, business and financial leaders who could affect 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 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 your 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:
- Secretary William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense, Senator and Congressman
- General Joseph Ralston, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Ambassador Marc Grossman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and US Ambassador to Turkey
- Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and US Ambassador to NATO and Greece
- Admiral James Loy, who served as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Commandant of the US Coast Guard
- Lord George Robertson, who served as NATO Secretary General and the UK Defense Minister
- General Paul Kern, who served as the Commander of the Army Materiel Command and the Senior Adviser for Army Research, Development and Acquisition;
- Ambassador Craig Kelly, former US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the State Department and Ambassador to Chile
- Lt. General Joe Yakovac, who served as Director of the Army Acquisition Corps and Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
- Lt. General Harry Raduege, who served as Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and Commander of the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations
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, Congress, US agencies including the Defense Department and State Department, and the governments of the United Kingdom and China.
The Cohen Group has offices in Washington, DC; Beijing, China; Tianjin, China; and Delhi, India.
For more information about The Cohen Group, please contact
H.K. Park, Vice President, in Washington, DC at 202-863-7206 or .
Visit
The Cohen Group's website to learn more.