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Cohen & Gresser is an international law firm with offices in New York, Paris, Seoul, and Washington, DC. We have litigated
and negotiated against some of the largest law firms in the world and have an outstanding record of success in high-
stakes and high-profile engagements. Founded in 2002, the firm has grown to nearly 60 lawyers in six practice areas:
Corporate: Cohen & Gresser assists clients in a wide range of corporate matters, including cross-border mergers and
acquisitions,private equity andventure capital financing,fund formation,corporategovernance,securities lawcompliance,
and real estate. Several of our attorneys have privacy certificates and can draft and provide counsel on intra-company and
transactional privacy practices.The firm also serves as outside general counsel to a number of privately held companies.
Intellectual Property and Technology: The firm handles a wide range of intellectual property and technology matters.
The firm’s litigators have experience in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation and
advise clients on internet privacy issues, data security, and technology law. The transactional lawyers protect clients’
patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, and trade secrets, manage domestic and international trademark
portfolios, and negotiate and draft a broad range of licensing and technology-related agreements.
Litigation and Arbitration: The firm has substantial experience litigating cases in a variety of areas, including antitrust and
unfair competition, bankruptcy litigation and counseling, class action defense, commercial litigation, directors and officers
litigation, international arbitration, partnership disputes, products liability, real estate litigation, and securities litigation.
White-Collar Defense: Cohen & Gresser represents companies and individuals in U.S. regulatory investigations,
proceedings before self-regulatory organizations, corporate internal investigations, and white-collar criminal cases.
Staffed by highly experienced former federal and state prosecutors and defense counsel, we have represented clients
in most of the major investigations of recent years and have defended institutions and senior executives in proceedings
involving many of the top U.S. government agencies.
Employment: The firm’s employment attorneys have significant experience counseling international clients, employers, and
top managers/executives, as well as representing them in litigation relating to various employment and labor-related issues.
Tax: The firm’s tax attorneys have a deep understanding of corporate tax, private client tax issues, tax litigation, and real
estate tax restructuring.
Karen Bromberg is chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology group. Her IP practice focuses on litigation,
counseling, and dispute resolution in all aspects of IP, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and
internet related issues. She regularly negotiates and drafts technology transfer, outsourcing, and license agreements,
and represents companies in the due diligence review and evaluation of target companies’ IP assets. She has been
recognized as a leading individual for patents by Chambers USA, in Intellectual Asset Management’s Patent 1000, by
Managing IP as an IP Star for her work in counseling, licensing, and patent litigation, and by Benchmark Litigation.
Karen has been named as one of New York’s Super Lawyers for Intellectual Property each year since 2010 and is on
Super Lawyers’ list of the top 50 women lawyers in the New York metropolitan area. Karen is a Certified Information
Privacy Professional with certifications covering U.S. and European privacy law. She advises clients on many privacy
and data protection matters, including privacy policies, global compliance, cross-border data transfers, cybersecurity
and network intrusion issues, and contractual issues involving privacy and security with an emphasis on litigation
avoidance. She represents multiple Israeli companies, and travels frequently to Tel Aviv.
Cohen &
Gresser LLP
Partner and Chair of Intellectual
Property and Technology practice group
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