Lewis Cohen

Lewis Cohen is a partner in the New York office of Hogan Lovells specializing in complex cross border securitizations and other structured financings.  He has been a leader in the field for over 20 years, representing issuers, underwriters, banks and others on a wide range of transactions around the globe. With the emergence of blockchain technology, Cohen early on identified the important role this technology would play across financial markets in general and in the area of structured finance in particular.  A board member of the Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG), the leading trade organization for the structured finance industry, Lewis co-chairs SFIG’s Blockchain Task Force.  He has been a frequent speaker on the topic of blockchain and the financial markets at industry conferences and has contributed to important reports on the use of blockchain in the capital markets and on the role of smart contracts in a blockchain setting.