H. Rodgin Cohen

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name = H. Rodgin Cohen

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birth_date = 1944
birth_place = Charleston, West Virginia
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alma_mater = Harvard College
Harvard Law School
occupation = Corporate lawyer
employer = Sullivan & Cromwell
nationality = flag|United States

H. Rodgin ("Rodge") Cohen is a prominent corporate lawyer whose practice focuses on commercial banking and financial institutions. Following graduation from Harvard College (1965), Harvard Law School (1968) and two years in the U.S. Army, Cohen joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1970. Cohen became Sullivan & Cromwell's Chairman in 2000. [ [http://www.sullcrom.com/cohenhrodgin/ Official Profile] ] The Financial Times has called Cohen "one of the biggest players on Wall Street".The Wall Street Journal refers to Cohen as "arguably the country’s leading banking lawyer". [ [http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/07/11/h-rodgin-cohen-great-name-better-banking-lawyer H. Rodgin Cohen: Great Name, Better Banking Lawyer] ]

Cohen participated in the bank negotiations in January 1981 that resulted in the freeing of the Americans held during the Iran hostage crisis. Cohen has also been a key player in the resolution of most major bank failures in recent decades, including Continental Illinois, First City, Southeast, Franklin National Bank and Bank of New England and, at the recommendation of the Federal Reserve, the Ohio thrift crisis during the U.S. Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Cohen was a leader in the Wall Street community rallying support for Lower Manhattan. Cohen is a trustee of New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Hackley School, Hampton College and the Economic Club of New York, and is a member of the advisory boards of Wall Street Rising, United Way of Westchester-Putnam and the University of Charleston.

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*cite news |first=Laura M. |last=Holson |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Private Sector; Master of Facts, Legal and Musical |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E3DC1738F93AA35754C0A9669C8B63 |work=New York Times |publisher= |date=2000-07-09 |accessdate=
*cite news |first=Michael |last=Quint |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Lawyer of Choice: H. Rodgin Cohen; He's the Counselor Banks Call in a Crisis |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDB1438F932A25755C0A96F948260 |work=New York Times |publisher= |date=1989-06-11 |accessdate=