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Mr. Scott B. Cohen

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Mr. Scott B. Cohen

Scott B. Cohen is a shareholder with Engelman Berger, PC in Phoenix and is a commercial bankruptcy attorney, primarily representing secured creditors and debtors in loan workouts, business turnarounds, chapter 11 reorganizations, bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation. From 2011-12, he chaired the Bankruptcy Section of the State Bar of Arizona. Mr. Cohen is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law with the American Board of Certification and sits on ABC?s board of directors. He contributes a chapter for Norton?s Bankruptcy Law and Practice (3rd ed.) and is an editor to the Norton BankruptcyLaw Adviser. Mr. Cohen co-authored ?A Primer on the Valuation of Affordable Housing in Chapter11,? which was published in the ABI Journal (May 2013), and he has served as faculty at ABI?s Annual Spring Meeting, ABI?s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference and the Norton Bankruptcy LitigationInstitute. Mr. Cohen is the editor of the chapter ?Bankruptcy in Construction Law? for the State Bar ofArizona?s Construction Law Manual. In 2014, he served as a subject-matter expert to help reform Arizona?s anti-deficiency laws, which resulted in HB 2018 and was published in Arizona Attorney in ?AnArmistice in the Fight for Anti-Deficiency Reform.? Mr. Cohen is a member of the State Bars of Arizona and California. He received his B.A. in political science in 1989 and his J.D. with distinction in 1992from the University of Iowa, where he was an articles editor with the Iowa Law Review.