Joel E. Cohen

Joel E. Cohen is the managing partner of Stout Risius Ross, LLC’s New York region. He has more than 20 years of experience in the dispute, forensic and insolvency practice areas, most specifically focused in the financial services and asset-management industries. His experience encompasses a number of significant cross-border insolvency and litigation matters, where he has served as financial advisor and consulting expert to fiduciaries, court-appointed receivers, monitors, offshore liquidators, and bankruptcy and litigation trustees. Mr. Cohen has assisted these clients in a variety of litigation consulting services, including asset-tracing, fraud, Ponzi schemes, industry custom and practice for investment managers, and forensic analysis. He also has led several internal investigations within the context of family office, investment advisors and various corporate structures. Before joining Stout, Mr. Cohen was a managing director at a boutique financial advisory and consulting firm. Prior to that, he spent a number of years with a global financial advisory firm in its Dispute & Investigations group, where he helped manage a team of CPAs, economists, attorneys and finance professionals in executing a diverse array of complex engagements related to the various hedge fund/private equity fraud, insolvencies, and litigations that characterized the global financial crisis of 2008-09. He also served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 1992-99, where he supervised its Business/Securities Fraud Unit. Mr. Cohen was a leader in the disputes practice at a Big 4 accounting firm and senior vice president at a prominent investment bank in charge of internal investigations. He also has worked with premier law firms on accounting malpractice, business insurance disputes, fraud detection and economic investigations. Mr. Cohen has expertise in managing the expectations of various stakeholders involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidations, litigation settlements and receiverships, namely in his capacity of assisting a board, trustee, receiver or official liquidator with their duties, including U.S. and cross-border considerations. He has experience within the offshore world, regularly handling cases out of the Caribbean. Mr. Cohen received his B.A. in economics with a focus on accounting from Rutgers University.