Leslie A. Cohen, Esq.

Leslie A. Cohen is an attorney and owner of Leslie Cohen Law, PC in Santa Monica, Calif., where she represents businesses and individuals in bankruptcy and insolvency matters, financial disputes, structuring, restructuring, reorganization, adversary proceedings and appeals. She has represented numerous asset-purchasers and sellers in negotiating and litigating bankruptcy acquisitions and contract assumptions and rejections. She also advises companies on the structuring and funding of special-purpose entities, distressed acquisitions and workouts. Ms. Cohen is a member of the Bankruptcy Mediation Panel for the Central District of California and has been an editor of the California Bankruptcy Journal since2007. She is an active lecturer and author, and lectures regularly at the UCLA Anderson School of Busi-ness. She has also spoken for the International Conference of Shopping Centers, ABI, the American BarAssociation, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Financial Lawyers Conference, the LosAngeles Bankruptcy Forum, the California Bankruptcy Forum and the Century City Bar Association, as well as private firms. Ms. Cohen is admitted to the State Bar of California and regularly lectures at the UCLA undergraduate business law program and the UCLA Anderson School of Business graduate program. Ms. Cohen received her B.A. in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego and herJ.D. in 1980 from UCLA School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the UCLA Law Review.