Justin S. Cohen is an associate in the New York office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. He focuses on the tax aspects of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs, aviation and equipment finance transactions, and bankruptcy and financial restructurings. He also has experience working on the tax aspects of cross-border investment structuring, private equity and hedge fund formation, corporate finances and securities offerings. Justin regularly counsels private foundations and other not-for-profit entities on a variety of compliance issues.
Professional Activities
Member, New York State Bar Association, Section of Taxation
Former Chair, Under 10 Club, New York State Bar Association, Section of Taxation
Awards
Recipient, Presidential Volunteer Service Award, 2016
Recipient, The Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publico Award, 2016
Highlighted Matters
Representation of Kensington Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in connection with its $3.3 billion merger with QuantumScape, an electric vehicle battery supplier backed by Volkswagen Group
Representation of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Mizuho Securities USA LLC, as the underwriting group, in a $2 billion public debt offering by ViacomCBS Inc. comprised of $1 billion in 4.2% senior notes and $1 billion in 4.95% senior notes.
Representation of MUFG Union Bank as
liquidity facility provider for a $485 million asset-backed securitization
(ABS) for Irish aircraft lessor BBAM Aviation Services. Citi, Credit Suisse and Mizuho acted as joint
lead structuring agents and joint lead bookrunners for the transaction –
Horizon Aircraft Finance II (Horizon 2019-1) which is supported by a fleet of
20 narrow-body aircraft.
Representation of the underwriting in a $2.5 billion public debt offering by ViacomCBS Inc. comprised of a 4.75% and 4.9% senior notes. The underwriting group included BofA Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities and Morgan Stanley & Co.
Representation of global information technology leader Infosys in its proposed acquisition of Simplus, the global leader of Salesforce quote-to-cash
Representation of BNP Paribas Securities Corp. in connection with a $189 million aircraft asset-backed securitiztion (ABS) for Vx Capital Partners, a cargo aircraft management and leasing firm.
Representation of Platinum Equity in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Wesco Aircraft.
Representation of Bank of America as facility agent, structuring agent and joint lead arranger in connection with a $300 million aircraft warehouse facility for a new join venture leasing vehicle established by Elliot Management and SkyWorks Leasing, an aircraft management services company.
