Brett Cohen, partner in the Real Estate Department, specializes in real property secured, asset-based financing, loan workouts, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing of real property, urban in-fill, and single family residential developments, and corporate organizational matters.  He develops creative solutions to difficult financing issues for lenders, borrowers, developers, joint venture partners and corporations. 
He received his Bachelor of Science degree, double majoring in Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor and Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Mr. Cohen is active in the local community, providing pro bono lead counsel and support to the Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center for charitable gifts of real property.  He also volunteers for the Westside Food Bank, serves on multiple Westside school boards, as well as commissioner of YMCA youth basketball and a coach in Little League and Youth League Basketball.   Additionally, he is involved in the Cornell and UCLA Alumni Associations, the Citizens' Oversight Committee for the Beverly Hills Unified School District, and a supporter of the Beverly Hills Athletic Alumni Association.

He has been selected for inclusion in Southern California Super Lawyers for six consecutive years, and also in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel edition.