Phillip Ean Cohen

Phillip Ean Cohen is an Australian private equity investor. He was featured in Rainmaker by Anthony Bianco.

Biography Cohen grew up in Melbourne, Victoria where he was a determined Australian Rules Football player. He started his career at Kuhn Loeb, and was tagged as a rising star in the Mergers department. After a stint at First Boston, he was recruited by Jeffery Beck to Oppenheimer & Co.'s Corporate advisory department. Cohen was responsible for the group's first eleven transactions, making upwards of $20 million for the department as a 28-year-old partner. Cohen was contributing nearly 60% of the department's revenue, yet his lack of respect to senior management made him ineligible for bonuses.

As a result, Cohen started taking a self-imposed fee on his deals; other Opco employees called these fees "Cohen Commissions".

Quotes "With his tailored Savile Row suits, Oxford accent, and patronizing manner, Cohen seems like the quintessential Wall Street sophisticate- very polished, very international. In actuality, though, he is Australian, not English, and his diffidence masks an extreme aggressiveness" (BusinessWeek)