Embark guest speaker: David Cohen

Join Embark for this chance to hear from David Cohen, a leading Canadian lawyer and alumnus of the Memorial University Faculty of Business Administration as he talks about "The business path through a law career".

David Cohen is the national leader of Gowling WLG's Financial Institutions & Services Group in Canada, and a senior practitioner in the firm's Toronto office. He practises law in the areas of corporate and commercial financing and restructuring and insolvency law, domestically and cross-border. David also coordinates the firm's national Distressed M&A practice. For the past seven years, David has been consistently recognized as a leader in the area of Restructuring/Insolvency - Canada in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Canada. He has also been listed by Lexpert as a leading lawyer in mining (2017/18/19) and debt financing and banking. David's recent matters have included the restructuring of $320 mill portfolio of consumer lease products, a large agricultural product manufacturer and producer, the liquidation and/or restructuring of a number of large domestic Canadian retail chains, and restructurings of mining businesses and oil and gas producers. He is also a successful investor in the turnaround of an industrial manufacturing business located in Southwest Ontario. 

Register here.


Location: RBC Atrium

Date and Time: Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (NDT)