Ian R. Cohen. M&A and fractional General Counsel at IRC Legal. Nearly a decade at Schulte Roth & Zabel and BakerHostetler. Nearly seven years as General Counsel of Pharmapacks and Packable through several capital raises, an announced SPAC merger, and an unwind. 500+ closed deals.
Buy-side and sell-side M&A, financings, joint ventures, and complex commercial contracts. Letter of intent through closing. Most engagements run $5 million to $250 million, with closings at $1 billion and up behind me. Structured for leverage. Drafted for certainty. Closed on schedule.
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Both sides of the table. A dual-track career spanning high-stakes BigLaw transactional work at Schulte Roth & Zabel and BakerHostetler, then in-house General Counsel of Pharmapacks and its parent company Packable.
Nearly seven years in the GC's chair. General Counsel of a venture-backed and later PE-backed ecommerce and logistics company through several capital raises, an announced SPAC merger and an unwind. I've lived with the deal after closing, and I negotiate for what happens after it.
I lead the matter. You will know me, and I stay on it. Supporting lawyers I supervise may handle drafting and diligence. I do not run a BigLaw leverage model.
Sell-side M&A, $5M to $1B+ — SaaS, tech-enabled services, e-commerce. Two billion-dollar sales of PE-backed companies (telecom, government contracting). Series A and B financings across CPG, e-commerce, AI, and fintech. Distressed wind-down and creditor negotiations.
$680 to $800 an hour depending on the matter, or a fixed fee for a defined scope. M&A engagements start with a $10,000 retainer; LOI-only review starts at $2,500. Most full buy-side or sell-side engagements run $25,000 to $50,000, or more, depending on the complexity. Fixed monthly retainers for fractional GC engagements. You know the number before we start.
Admitted to practice in New York, 2010. Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2014–2019. J.D., Hofstra University - School of Law. B.A., University of Maryland, College Park. Grew up on Long Island, trained in New York City, returned home.
IRC Legal · 128 Front St, Mineola, NY 11501 · Long Island, New York · 516.578.1112 · ian@irclegal.com · Serving clients in New York, nationally, and internationally.
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