Cohen LLP
4 lawyers · City of Toronto, Durham Region
One of 2,345 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 697 handling Real Estate Law.
About Cohen LLP
One of the highest-rated law firms in Toronto, going by its Google reviews.
Cohen LLP is a law firm with offices in Toronto and Pickering, Ontario. In Pickering it practices jointly as Stroud Cohen Law Office LLP. The firm's core work is residential real estate (purchasing, selling, and refinancing) and wills and estates (wills, powers of attorney, probate, and trusts), alongside a corporate and commercial group handling incorporations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and privacy law.
The firm has also built a national side to its real estate practice around corporate relocation closings. It developed its own coordination software, the Network Management System, to manage local lawyers and notaries handling closings for transferring employees across the country, and has used a national signing network with video conferencing so clients in remote locations can complete a closing without leaving home. It also publishes a set of presentations for real estate professionals on topics such as status certificate reviews, power of sale properties, non resident sellers, and landlord and tenant law.
Practice areas
Milestones & recognition
- Senior partner Max Cohen was called to the Ontario bar in 1994 after completing a joint M.B.A./LL.B. program through the Schulich School of Business at York University and Osgoode Hall Law School. Before joining Cohen LLP's real estate practice, Max Cohen was general counsel to Brascan Business Services, associate general counsel at Loyalty Management Group Canada (the AIR MILES program), and worked at Chapters Inc., Canada's largest book retailer at the time, from 1997 to 2001. Max Cohen has two decades of experience negotiating private equity transactions and private company mergers and acquisitions.
- Adrienne Swift, a partner in the firm's wills and estates practice, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from York University in 2002, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2005, and was called to the bar in 2006.
- Michael Klein, an associate lawyer focused on residential real estate, studied classical studies at York University and earned an LL.B. from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England, before being called to the Ontario bar in 2017.
- Stephanie Molinaro, an associate lawyer working in real estate and corporate matters, holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law (2013) and was called to the bar in 2014.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessible
By appointmentLawyers 4
This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Called to the bar
- 1994–2017 · median 16 years in practice 4 of 4 lawyers
- Law schools
- Osgoode Hall Law School (2), Oxford Brookes University, University of Toronto 4 of 4 lawyers
Who handles what
Offices 2
The neighbourhood
The Toronto office is on Wynford Drive in the Don Mills area, a stretch of office towers just off the Don Valley Parkway that's also home to the Aga Khan Museum and the Ismaili Centre, two of the city's more distinctive cultural buildings. It's a business park setting rather than a storefront strip, which fits a practice built as much around corporate relocation and closing files as walk in real estate deals.
The Pickering office sits on Kingston Road, the old colonial route that once ran along the Lake Ontario shore from Toronto to Kingston and served as the region's main eastern highway before Highway 401 was built. One of the firm's lawyers, Stephanie Molinaro, is a Pickering native who has been with the city since 1987, so the office has some real local roots rather than just being a satellite of the Toronto practice.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Cohen LLP handle home purchases in both Toronto and Pickering?
- Yes. The firm has offices in both cities and its real estate lawyers handle purchases, sales, and refinancing of residential property, working with the client's real estate and mortgage agents through to closing.
- Can Cohen LLP help if I'm relocating for work and buying or selling outside Ontario?
- The firm built its own coordination software, called the Network Management System, to manage a network of local lawyers and notaries handling closings for transferring employees across Canada, so a relocation file can be tracked consistently even when the property isn't local.
- Does Cohen LLP only handle estates after someone has died, or also wills and powers of attorney?
- Both. The wills and estates group prepares wills, powers of attorney, and trusts, and also administers estates and probate matters after a death.
- What kind of business law work does Cohen LLP do?
- The corporate and commercial group handles incorporations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial agreements, and privacy law for small and medium sized companies as well as larger Canadian businesses and venture capital firms.
- What are Cohen LLP's office hours?
- Cohen LLP's website does not list specific office hours. Contact the firm directly to confirm hours before visiting.
- Does Cohen LLP offer any resources for real estate agents or other professionals?
- The firm publishes a set of presentations on real estate law topics, including status certificate reviews, power of sale properties, non resident sellers, and landlord and tenant law, aimed at real estate professionals.
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