Press Release

Cohen & Buckmann Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

Issued by Cohen & Buckmann P.C.

June 30, 2021

NEW YORK (June 30, 2021) –– National executive compensation and employee benefits law firm Cohen & Buckmann, PC is pleased to announce a milestone achievement – the firm’s fifth anniversary.

Founded in 2016 by Sandra Cohen and Carol Buckmann, the firm has tripled in size over the past five years and has handled more than 750 client matters for leading organizations throughout North America and the world.

The two attorneys, formerly with Sullivan & Cromwell and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, co-founded Cohen & Buckmann with a goal to create a premier boutique employee benefits firm offering top service and significant breadth and depth of employee benefits and executive compensation area coverage.

“We are thrilled and proud of what we have accomplished,” shared Cohen, who had worked with Buckmann for 18 years before they started the firm. “We owe our success to our dedicated clients – employers, companies of all sizes, executives and executive teams – as well as law firms that incorporate us into their corporate transactions as the employee benefits and pension arm of their legal teams, and to our skilled attorneys, who provide sound, practical counsel to complicated legal issues.”

Cohen & Buckmann provides ERISA advice to funds and plan fiduciaries and guidance on complex management negotiations, taxation of deferred compensation (409A), employee benefits, and tax-qualified plans in corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions. Cohen & Buckmann attorneys often serve as outside pension and benefits counsel to other law firms and are known for their experience and knowledge of cross-border matters. The firm also counsels investment advisers on regulatory matters and their fiduciary duties to clients.

“When Sandra and I founded the firm in 2016, our goal was to give all of our clients personal attention from professionals who only do what they know best,” shared Buckmann. “We are grateful that so many clients have responded and looked to us for sophisticated guidance and to help them solve their problems.”

Known for their understanding of the most complex areas of the law and for their high-level of client service, Cohen and Buckmann and their firm have been recognized by the most prestigious organizations in the industry. In 2021, Cohen & Buckmann was named a leading law firm in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation by Chambers & Partners and in 2020, was named one of the National Law Journal’s Elite Boutique Trailblazers.

The firm is also ranked in U.S. News and World Reports’ Best Law Firms, in Tier 1 for New York and Tier 2 nationally, and its founding partners are recognized by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal. They have also earned AV Preeminent Ratings® by Martindale-Hubbell.

About Cohen & Buckmann
Cohen & Buckmann (www.cohenbuckmann.com) is a boutique law firm that focuses in the areas of Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits & ERISA. The firm also has an Investment Adviser Law practice. Based in New York City, the firm represents domestic and global companies with operations in the United States. Cohen & Buckmann attorneys are known for their practical problem solving and depth of experience in all areas in which they practice.

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