Hillel T. Cohn is a partner in the Los Angeles offices of Morrison & Foerster LLP. Mr. Cohn is a member of the Corporate Finance Group and specializes in securities offerings, SEC compliance and corporate governance. He currently serves as a co-chair of the Public Companies Group.

Mr. Cohn has advised technology, life science, financial services and entertainment companies with respect to securities offerings, corporate governance, SEC compliance, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has extensive experience handling public offerings of equity, debt and real estate securities and has also represented a number of emerging technology and life science companies in dozens of venture financings.

Mr. Cohn assists public companies ranging from small-cap issuers to NYSE listed companies with their SEC reporting and represents broker dealers and investment advisers with respect to SEC compliance. Mr. Cohn has counseled a number of public companies with respect to SEC and SRO investigations and has helped many companies design and implement corporate governance policies and procedures. He has also acted as special counsel to Board committees conducting internal investigations.

Mr. Cohn assists public and private companies with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and similar transactions, with notable experience in handling cross border acquisitions and international investments. He has assisted a number of U.S. companies in establishing business operations in China through joint ventures and other business arrangements and he has represented a number of Japanese companies in their acquisitions of publicly held U.S. companies.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster in 2005, Mr. Cohn was with the SEC for 7 years and in private practice for 23 years. He graduated from Tufts College in 1971 and Harvard Law School in 1974. Mr. Cohn has also been named as a 2007-2009 Best Lawyer in America in the field of Securities Law and listed in Super Lawyers magazine from 2004-2008.