Cohen & Gresser expand with addition of Kaiser

According to Cohen & Gresser, Nicholas Kaiser has joined the firm as counsel in its corporate group. Kaiser's practice focuses on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions. He advises clients in structuring corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships to acquire real estate, operating businesses and other investments as well as the day-to-day tax issues that arise in operations. Additionally, his real estate practice focuses on all aspects of property acquisition, development, construction, finance, disposition, and leasing as well as serving as general counsel to one of the largest boutique hotel owners/operators in Manhattan and to a property developer. Prior to joining the firm, Kaiser was a partner at Seyfarth Shaw and, before that, a transactional tax attorney at the Wall Street law firm, Cahill Gordon & Reindel. "I have known Mark Cohen and Larry Gresser since they founded the firm. Over the last 12 years I was constantly impressed by the quality of the lawyers the firm attracted and its strategic expansion into additional practice areas. I am thrilled to bring my transactional real estate and tax expertise and relationships to Cohen & Gresser, and to assist the growth of the firm in these areas," says Kaiser. Founded in 2002, Cohen & Gresser LLP has been recognized in Chambers USA, Legal 500, and Benchmark Litigation, and was named to The National Law Journal's 2013 "Midsize Hot List." The firm has offices in New York, Paris, and Seoul, and has grown to sixty lawyers in four practice areas: Litigation and Arbitration; Intellectual Property and Technology; White Collar Defense; and Corporate.