
Joel Cohen has over two decades 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, bankruptcy, and litigation trustees. He 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. Joel has also led several internal investigations within the context of family office, investment advisors, and various corporate structures.
Before joining Stout, Joel 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 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. Joel has worked with premier law firms on accounting malpractice, business insurance disputes, fraud detection, and economic investigations.
Joel 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 extensive experience within the offshore world, regularly handling cases out of the Caribbean.
Select Presentations and Speeches
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Knect 365 September 2018
Asset Recovery Americas: Fraud Litigation, Enforcement & Contentious Insolvency
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Strafford Webinar September 2019 Webinar
Third-Party Litigation Funding in Bankruptcy Cases: Recent Trends and Key Issues
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Philadelphia Bar Association October 2019
Philadelphia Bench-Bar and Annual Conference 2019
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American Bankruptcy Institute November 2019
Mid-Level Professional Development Program
Practice Areas
Focus Industries
Education
B.A., Economics (Accounting Focus), Rutgers University
Licenses & Designations
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Professional Memberships
Anti-Defamation League
American Bankruptcy Institute
National Association of Federal Equity Receivers
Association for Certified Fraud Examiners
Turnaround Management Association