David F.W. Cohen

David F.W. Cohen

Partner at Gowling WLG
(416) 369-6667
(416) 862-7661
100 King St W, Suite 1600, 1 First Cdn Pl, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1992 (ON)
David F. W. Cohen is national leader of Gowling WLG’s financial institutions and services industry group and a senior practitioner in the firm's Toronto office. With 30 years of experience, he practises in the areas of corporate and commercial financing and restructuring and insolvency law, in both a domestic and cross-border context. He also coordinates the firm's national distressed M&A practice.  He has transactional experience in sectors ranging from automotive to financial services and from hospitality to telecom. Recent matters include the restructuring of 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 served as global president (2016), global chairman (2017), and global immediate past chairman (2018) of the Turnaround Management Association. He has been recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® DirectoryThe Best Lawyers™ in Canada, and the Legal 500 Canada.
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