Charles Cohen, Esquire

Representative Publications and Speaking Engagements

• Author, "A Primer on the Basic Themes and Structures of Securities Regulation" (July 2016)  
• Author, “A Primer on Corporate Governance Principles” (July 2014)
• Presenter, “Raising New Capital - Legal Aspects,” Florida Gulf Coast University 9th Annual Entrepreneur’s Law School (January 2009)
• Presenter, “Raising New Capital - Legal Aspects,” Florida Gulf Coast University 8th Annual Entrepreneur’s Law School (January 2008)
• Author, “Personal Liability of Directors for Corporate Legal Compliance Failures: Review of State Law Principles,” 10th Annual Federal Securities Law Forum, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2007)
• Presenter, “Raising New Capital - Legal Aspects,” Florida Gulf Coast University 7th Annual Entrepreneur's Law School (January 2007) Co-author, “The 2005 Securities Offering Reform,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 2006)
• Co-author, “Securities Offering Reform-101,” 9th Annual Federal Securities Law Forum, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2006)
• Co-author, “Another Mutation of Section 12(a)(2) – The SEC's Securities Act Reform Proposals,” 8th Annual Federal Securities Law Forum, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2005)
• Author, “Insider Trading OK’d Without Confidentiality Agreement,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (Winter 2003)
• Co-author, “No Comment - If Martha Stewart Had Just Said Nothing, She Wouldn't Be In This Pickle,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 17, 2003)
• Co-author, “A Worthy Restoration Project - Implication of a Private Remedy Under Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933,” CCH Securities Regulatory Update (December 23, 2002)
• Co-author, “Is "Fair Dealing" Required When Freezing Out Minority Stockholders?,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (Winter 2001)
• Author, “Insider and Outsider Liability for Trading on Material Nonpublic Information,” 4th Annual Federal Securities Law Forum, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2001)
• Author, “New Requirements for Audit Committees,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 2000)
• Author, “Enhancements to the Role of the Audit Committee,” 3rd Annual Federal Securities Law Forum, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2000)
• Author, “Safe Harbors in Cyberspace Measures for Avoidance of Securities Law Liabilities,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 1999)
• Author, “Safe Harbors in Cyberspace,” 2nd Annual Federal Securities Law Forum, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (1999)
• Quoted, “Power Lunch-Pittsburgh's Prestigious Duquesne was Recently Named America's Finest City Club; Hardly News in a Town Where the Landmarks and its Founders are Bedrocks of History,” Executive Report (September 1997)
• Author, “Recent Supreme Court Decisions Make it Harder to Sue for Securities Fraud,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 1996)
• Author, “Why Corporations Need to Develop a Legal Compliance Code,” Cohen & Grigsby Review (April 1995)
• Featured, “Most-Seated Pittsburgh Area Corporate Directors,” Pittsburgh Business Times (November 29, 1993 and November 28, 1994)
• Co-author, “SEC Changes Bring Equity Markets to Small Business,” Allegheny Business News (December 1992)
• Author, (Book Review) “The Law of Securities Regulation,” The Journal of Law and Commerce, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Vol. 7, Issue 1, 1987)