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| Born | Henry Rodgin Cohen 1944 (age 80–81) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA,JD) |
Henry Rodgin "Rodge" Cohen (born 1944)[1] is an American corporate lawyer whose practice focuses on commercial banking and financial institutions. He is currently the senior chairman of the law firmSullivan & Cromwell.
Henry Rodgin Cohen was born in 1944, in the Fort Hill section ofCharleston, West Virginia, to Louis and Bertie (Rodgin) Cohen. His father ran drugstores and his mother was a high school teacher.[2]
After studying in the local public schools through junior high, Cohen attended and graduated fromDeerfield Academy in Massachusetts. He then graduated fromHarvard College (1965), andHarvard Law School (1968).[2]
After two years in theU.S. Army as a military lawyer atFort Monmouth, New Jersey, Cohen joinedSullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1970. Cohen served asSullivan & Cromwell's Chairman from 2000 through the end of 2009.[3] TheWall Street Journal refers to Cohen as "arguably the country's leading banking lawyer".[4] He has been called "the trauma surgeon of Wall Street".[2]
In 2009, Cohen was rumored to be considered for the post ofDeputy Secretary of the Treasury in theObama administration.[5]
During the2008 financial crisis, Cohen defended the financial system and Wall Street: "I am far from convinced there was something inherently wrong with the system."[6]
Cohen was played byRobert J. Hogan in the 2011 filmToo Big to Fail.
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