03/26/2008 07:32:19 AM EST
Cozen O'Connor Names Rafael Perez Managing Partner of Newark and Trenton Offices
NEWARK, N.J. – Cozen O'Connor has announced that Rafael Perez has been named office managing partner of the firm's Newark and Trenton N.J., offices.
A member of the firm's Newark office, Perez is chair of the firm's diversity committee and a co-head of the public and project finance group. He has been involved in a wide variety of public finance projects, acting as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, trustee's counsel and borrower's counsel, and has represented investment banks, corporations organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, for-profit corporations, cities, townships, boroughs, states and their agencies and authorities. He has also represented corporations and financial institutions in transactional and general corporate matters in the United States, Mexico and South America.
Perez is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He has served as regional president of the National Hispanic Bar Association from 1989-1990, president of the Hispanic Bar Association in New Jersey from 1994-1995 and as a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association from 1996-2002. He currently serves as chair of the board of trustees of New Jersey City University in Jersey City, N.J.
A resident of Hunterdon County, N.J., Perez earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University (B.A., 1981) and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1984). He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.
Founded in 1970, Cozen O'Connor serves business, insurance and private clients. Cozen O'Connor is a full-service firm with 500 attorneys practicing in 23 offices. The firm has 21 domestic offices located across the United States and international offices in London and Toronto.