Profile: H Rodgin Cohen

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The primary focus of Rodgin Cohen's practice is regulatory, M&A, securities and corporate governance matters for major domestic and foreign banking and other financial institutions. He also represents The Clearing House LLP, which is an association of 11 major banks.

Mr Cohen has worked on a wide variety of financial institution regulatory and investigative matters with the four US banking regulatory agencies and other governmental agencies. These matters have included bank product and geographic powers, the Bank Secrecy Act, compliance, insurance of bank deposits and the Community Reinvestment Act. He was a member of the group of 30 study groups on 'Financial Institution Reporting' (2003) and 'Global Institutions, National Supervision and Systemic Risk' (1997) and the New York Superintendent's Advisory Committee on Transnational Banking Institutions (1992) and participated in the bank negotiations to free the Iranian hostages.

In the acquisitions area, Mr Cohen has been engaged in most of the major US bank acquisitions, including Wachovia-Golden West, AmSouth-Regions, Bank of New York-Chase business swap, Chase-Bank One, First Union-Wachovia, US Bancorp-Firstar, Wells Fargo-Norwest, Wells Fargo-First Interstate, Chemical-Chase, NationsBank-C&S, and Bank of New York-Irving. In cross-border and foreign transactions, he has been engaged in BBVA-Texas Regional, Mitsubishi-UFJ, Goldman Sachs-Sumitomo, Allianz-Dresdner, UBS-PaineWebber, Credit Suisse-DLJ, Société Générale-Paribas, Dexia-FSA and Credit Suisse-First Boston. Mr Cohen has also worked on a number of major cross-industry acquisitions, including Merrill Lynch-BlackRock, Mellon-Dreyfus and NationsBank-Montgomery, as well as acquisitions in the insurance industry, including Anthem-WellPoint, Manulife-Hancock and Provident-UNUM.

In the securities area, Mr Cohen worked on the first public offering in the United States by a non-US bank (Barclays) and on other offerings in the US by non-US banks. He has also worked on public offerings by Citicorp, Chase, Chemical, Morgan Guaranty, Security Pacific, First Interstate, Bank of New York, BancOne, Mellon, First Union, Shawmut, Wachovia, First Bank System, First Fidelity, MBNA, Republic New York, KeyCorp and Norwest.

Mr Cohen has also participated in the resolution of most major bank failures, including Continental Illinois, First City, Southeast, Franklin National and Bank of New England and, at the recommendation of the Federal Reserve, the Ohio thrift crisis.

Mr Cohen joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1970 after graduating from Harvard College (BA, magna cum laude, 1965) and Harvard Law School (LLB, 1968). He became a partner in 1977 and chairman of the firm in 2000.

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