Mr. Cohen is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Solutions Group, focusing on healthcare. His primary responsibilities include working with the firm’s clients to raise debt and equity capital to support refinancings, recapitalizations, restructurings, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and growth capital initiatives, as well as advising companies on a wide range of capital structure matters. Mr. Cohen is based in the firm’s New York office.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Cohen spent 18 years in Capital One’s Healthcare Banking and Lending unit (formerly GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services). While there, he led the life sciences coverage team, responsible for all key pharmaceutical and medical-device-related subsectors, with a focus on cash flow and asset-based lending to middle-market public, founder-owned, and sponsor-backed companies. Before joining GE Capital, Mr. Cohen spent seven years in sellside equity research covering large capitalization and specialty pharmaceutical stocks.
Mr. Cohen holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, an M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Georgetown University, and an MBA in Finance from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.