Cohen and Wolf, PC

Managing Partner: Ari J. Hoffman

Number of Principles: 29

Number of Other Lawyers: 20

Firm Overview:

Cohen and Wolf, P.C. began in 1951 with two lawyers, Herbert L. Cohen and Austin K. Wolf, working from a single office in Bridgeport. Since then, the firm has expanded to about 50 attorneys with offices in Bridgeport, Danbury, and Westport. Attorneys at Cohen and Wolf represent a diverse assortment of individuals, businesses, and municipalities, handling their personal and professional legal needs in all types of matters, including litigation, employment, business and corporate law, securities, commercial lending, real estate, land use and zoning, criminal defense, personal injury, family law, elder law, tax, and estate planning. Additional information is available at www.cohenandwolf.com.

Main Areas of Practice:

Appellate:

The firm handles appeals to state and federal appellate courts and is often engaged as appellate counsel by trial lawyers outside the firm and by litigants seeking to take or defend an appeal. The firm has extensive experience handling appellate motion practice, drafting appellate briefs, and arguing appeals.

Bankruptcy:

The firm represents both secured and unsecured creditors and debtors in bankruptcy, reorganization, workout matters and adversary proceedings, counseling both individuals and businesses of all sizes.

Business & Corporate:

The firm represents a diverse base of entrepreneurial, closely held, and middle-market businesses from inception through day-to-day transactions and operations, financing, business combinations, acquisitions, and sales.

Commercial Finance:

The firm provides responsive and cost-effective legal counsel to institutional lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset-based financing transactions, commercial real estate lending, acquisition financing, and other lending transactions.

Common Interest Communities:

The firm’s attorneys have broad experience in all aspects of the law of condominiums, cooperatives, and planned communities.

Criminal Defense:

The firm represents individuals charged with or involved in a broad spectrum of crimes including assaults, driving under the influence, reckless driving, drug possession and criminal mischief. Attorneys in the group regularly appear in state criminal courts, as well as state juvenile courts, throughout Connecticut. Several of the attorneys in the group are former state prosecutors.

Elder Law:

This practice focuses on long-term care planning, asset preservation strategies, Medicaid applications, disability planning, utilizing conservatorships/guardianships, and special needs trusts. The practice also includes probate administration.

Employment Counseling & Litigation:

The firm represents management and individuals in employment disputes of all types, including discrimination, discharge, breach of contract, wage claims and labor matters, in federal and state courts, and before administrative agencies. The firm also provides advice on employment contracts, severance agreements, workplace investigations, personnel policies, handbooks, procedures, and trainings.

Family Law:

The firm’s attorneys represent individuals in all areas of family relations law, including drafting and negotiation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, litigating actions seeking divorce, legal separation, custody and visitation, handling post-judgment modification and enforcement proceedings, and representing minor children.

Land Use & Zoning:

The firm represents developers, municipalities, and landowners in obtaining local, state, and federal permits and approvals.

Legal Ethics:

The firm counsels and represents attorneys and law firms in matters concerning licensing, Connecticut Bar admissions, professional discipline, malpractice, and attorney grievances.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution:

The firm represents businesses of all sizes, municipalities, and individuals in a wide range of matters before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and alternative dispute resolution venues. Substantive areas include contract, real estate, commercial, partnership and shareholder disputes, employment and securities claims, as well as ‘bet the company’ litigation, title insurance coverage cases, and tax appeals.

Municipal:

The firm has extensive experience in all aspects of municipal law, including representing and advising town boards and commissions, negotiating contracts, handling municipal litigation and administrative appeals, and providing guidance and direction for town governance.

Personal Injury:

The firm helps individuals who have sustained injury and losses as a result of the negligence of others, including motor vehicle collisions, dangerous premises, dog bites, fall downs and accidents at work, as well as all types of wrongful death actions.

Physicians’ Practices:

The firm counsels physician groups on a variety of sensitive issues and brings extensive drafting and interpretive experience to physicians’ employment and partnership agreements, M&A of physician practices, the consequences of non-competition agreements, governance, and the planning and succession of a medical practice.

Probate Litigation:

The firm represents individuals, families, businesses, and financial institutions in Connecticut Probate Court, Connecticut Superior Court, and federal court in a wide range of litigation matters.

Real Estate:

The firm has extensive experience representing owners, tenants, developers, lenders, municipalities and governmental agencies in the development, acquisition, financing, zoning, leasing, and disposition of commercial real estate.

Securities:

The firm represents investment bankers, hedge funds, broker-dealers, investment advisers, issuers of securities and their representatives before federal, state, and self-regulatory agencies. It also has an extensive securities litigation practice in federal and state courts as well as vast experience in broker-customer and industry arbitrations and mediations.

Tax:

The firm regularly assists clients in structuring mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, split-offs, shareholder redemptions, joint ventures, real estate ventures, and reorganizations to minimize overall taxation.

Telecommunications & Utilities:

The firm represents wireless telecommunications clients, including licensed carriers, wireless infrastructure companies and alternative technology providers in obtaining local, state, and federal permits and approvals.

Trusts & Estates:

The firm represents private individuals in the areas of estate and tax planning, estate administration, trust formation and administration, charitable gift and foundation planning and administration, business succession planning, conservatorships, guardianships, and probate litigation.

Offices

USA, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1115 Broad Street 203.368.0211

USA, Danbury, Connecticut, 158 Deer Hill Avenue 203.792.2771

USA, Westport, Connecticut, 320 Post Road West 203.222.1034

www.cohenandwolf.com