Attorneys

• Henry C. Cohen
• Hugh W. Nevin, Jr.

Cohen & Grigsby is pleased to announce the opening of an office in Naples, Florida in December 2000.  Henry C. Cohen and Hugh W. Nevin will be heading the office and dividing their time between Pittsburgh and Florida.  The Naples office initially will be advising and assisting U.S. and foreign individuals and businesses as to business and U.S. estate, gift and income tax matters.  Henry Cohen stated that the Naples office will be calling upon the resources of the Firm’s attorneys to provide appropriate legal services as needed or required.  All of Cohen & Grigsby’s current legal services and capabilities in the six general areas of Business, Estates and Trusts, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, and Litigation will also be available through the Naples office.  “As a result of the Firm’s continuing commitment to and investment in technology, we will be able to access all of the Firm’s experience and capabilities, regardless of location,” Hugh Nevin said.

“The exponential growth, primarily in international business and immigration, among our clients in the Florida area has necessitated this opening.  We are pleased that a closer and more accessible geographical location will enable us to better serve our clients in the area,” said Richard (Chip) Nelson, the Firm’s president.  “Of course our Firm’s fundamental commitment will drive our Florida operations: understanding the business, mission and goals of each of our clients with high-quality legal services to assist in meeting those goals.

Henry Cohen is a business and tax attorney who concentrates his practice in the areas of individual and corporate income taxation (including extensive experience in compensation planning and business ownership transfer transactions), mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations and estate planning.  He is head of the Estates & Trusts Group and serves as the Firm’s Vice President, Florida Practice.  Mr. Cohen is a Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania and Ohio (inactive) and earned a B.S. from Miami University in 1967 and his J.D. from Cornell University in 1971.

Hugh Nevin is a founder and former president of Cohen & Grigsby and concentrates his practice in merger and acquisition matters, business law and international tax.  Mr. Nevin, who is fluent in German, focuses a substantial part of his practice in advising foreign enterprises and individuals investing and conducting their businesses in the United States and U.S. companies doing business abroad.  He has regularly secured temporary and permanent visas and labor certifications for foreign nationals.  He earned a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) from Harvard College in 1968, a Rotary International Fellowship at the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1971, and his J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1974.

Messrs. Cohen and Nevin are members of both the Pennsylvania and Florida bars.

Also licensed to practice in Florida are David I. Cohen, concentrating in business; John E. Lyncheski, concentrating in labor and employment law; and Richard D. Rosen, concentrating in estates and trusts law.