Cohan PLLC

Founding Attorney - Chasen Cohan, Esq.

Chasen Cohan, Esq., is a licensed attorney who also possesses FINRA Series 7 (Registered Representative) and Series 63 (Uniform State Representative) licenses (brokercheck.finra.org), state insurance licenses, and State Securities Registrations in Nevada, Missouri, and North Carolina. Mr. Cohan is admitted to practice law before the Nevada Bar, all Nevada State and Federal Courts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Cohan’s representative clients have included: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Sam’s West, Inc., MGM Grand Resorts International, New York-New York Hotel & Casino, Mandalay Corp., The Treasure Island Hotel and Casino, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, The Mirage Casino-Hotel, South Point Hotel & Casino, American Express, Barclays, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and various life insurance companies and service providers.

Mr. Cohan is a Las Vegas native who graduated with honors from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Mr. Cohan received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law. During law school, Mr. Cohan served as a clerk for the Office of the Texas Attorney General and a Judicial Extern for United States District Court Judge James R. Nowlin. Mr. Cohan gives back to his community by serving on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Olamau Foundation and the nonprofit Real Dare Foundation.


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Cohan PLLC’s Practice Areas

Complex Litigation

Clients from global brands and middle-market companies to innovative startups and individuals trust Cohan PLLC to resolve their trickiest legal disputes. Whether that’s litigation in state or federal trial and appellate courts in Nevada; investigations and enforcement actions before government agencies; or mediation, arbitration, and regulatory agency proceedings. Cohan PLLC has extensive experience in various complex litigation matters and delivers practical and strategic counsel with a dependable focus on our clients’ business objectives and a steadfast determination to achieve the best outcome. Litigation is sometimes necessary. However, Cohan PLLC never loses sight of the main goals of minimizing risk, protecting our clients’ brands, and securing their competitive advantages.

Cohan PLLC has litigated hundreds of millions in dollars of claims on behalf of corporate litigants. As a result of this experience, Cohan PLLC has been afforded the opportunity to selectively act as Plaintiff’s counsel on complex, personal injury matters. Additionally, Cohan PLLC acts as local counsel for some of largest and most successful trial law firms in the United States.

Financial Services

Cohan PLLC provides a wide range of legal and regulatory services to life insurance companies, broker-dealers, investment funds, investment advisers, stable value protection providers, and product administrators related to the design, marketing, and sale of group variable life insurance products, individual and group annuities, stable value wraps, synthetic instruments, insurance dedicated funds, and other life insurance products.

Cohan PLLC advises on federal tax matters, ERISA, and state insurance laws applicable to these insurance products. Cohan PLLC has extensive experience working with issuers to ensure their innovative life insurance product designs qualify for favorable tax treatment under state and federal laws. Cohan PLLC has the unique experience of working with clients on the registration of variable life insurance products and advising clients on various interpretive issues regarding novel life insurance products. Cohan PLLC has also represented investment funds and investment advisers regarding fund formation, fund management, and regulatory compliance related to life insurance dedicated funds. Additionally, we counsel clients on matters related to complex employee benefit plans.

Cohan PLLC often combines its technical expertise regarding the statutory issues related to separate account, private placement group variable life insurance with its extensive litigation background to act as co-counsel in bet-the-company litigation across the country. 

Emerging Companies

Cohan PLLC works with high-growth companies and their investors to provide creative solutions and innovative deal-making grounded in principled legal advice at every stage of an emerging company’s growth. Cohan PLLC specializes in operating as full and part-time outside general counsel for middle-market and emerging companies. While serving as outside general counsel, Cohan PLLC has been responsible for the following: 

  • Negotiating and managing national and international transactions involving asset or stock acquisitions or dispositions, mergers, spinoffs, reorganizations, joint ventures, and strategic alliances

  • Managing SEC and state securities law filings and reporting obligations

  • Drafting various commercial contracts, licensing agreements, and strategic transactions

  • Handling corporate governance, board and shareholder resolutions, consents, directors meetings, shareholder meetings, and minutes

  • Capital raises

  • Counseling officers and directors on fiduciary duties and strategic considerations

  • Employment matters, including hiring, retention, termination, and employee handbooks

  • Executive compensation, including stock options, restricted stock agreements, and equity and non-equity based incentive compensation

  • Trademark, patent, and other intellectual property protection

  • Litigation, arbitration, and risk management

  • Real estate purchases and commercial leasing

 

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