Robert L. Kohl

Qualifications and Career Profile

Mr. Kohl is National Co-Chair of Katten Muchin Rosenman's Securities Practice. He concentrates his practice in public company representation, including corporate financing matters, as well as partnership, limited liability company and securities law. He has extensive experience in all phases of business structuring and financing, including registered public offerings (initial public offerings and secondary offerings) and private placements (including Rule 144A debt offerings), acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buy-outs, securities regulations, and venture capital financings. He represents corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, both public and private, domestic and foreign.

Associations and Committees

Mr. Kohl is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Business Law, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities and the Subcommittee on 1933 Act.

Lectures and Articles

Mr. Kohl has written articles in the securities regulation and venture capital areas for IPO Journal, The American Banker and Crain’s New York Business and has contributed an article to the Virginia Law Review. He has lectured on topics related to securities matters and appeared on Financial News Network and CNBC as a commentator on finance and securities issues.

Education

Mr. Kohl received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude (B.A., 1965) from Queens College, City University of New York, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his law degree (J.D., 1968) from Harvard Law School.