Jennifer R. Cowan

Pro Bono Counsel & Litigation Counsel

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Tel: +1 212 909 7445

Overview

Jennifer Cowan is the firm’s Pro Bono Counsel and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. She leads the firm’s award-winning pro ... Read Full Biography

Publications

Update: Harris/Walz Ticket Raises Advisers Act Pay-to-Play Rule Considerations (Plus 8 Important Pay-to-Play Reminders)
6 August 2024

Sheena Paul
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Julie M. Riewe
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Kristin A. Snyder
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Marc Ponchione
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Jennifer R. Cowan
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Lauren P. Heller
SEC Pay-to-Play Placement Agent Restriction Delayed, and a Reminder for Campaign Season
9 July 2015

Kenneth J. Berman
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Michael P. Harrell
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Jennifer R. Cowan
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Julie Stem
SEC Settles First “Pay-to-Play” Enforcement Action
2 July 2014

Jonathan Adler
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Jennifer J. Burleigh
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Michael P. Harrell
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Andrew M. Levine
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David J. Schwartz
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Rebecca F. Silberstein
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Kenneth J. Berman
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Jennifer R. Cowan
President Obama Signs the STOCK Act
4 April 2012

Eric Dinallo
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Mark P. Goodman
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Jennifer R. Cowan

Upcoming Events

Recent Events

Navigating the Current Legal Challenges of Racial-Lens Investing
10 October 2024

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

Webcast

Speaker: Jennifer R. Cowan, Lorena Rodriguez, Sharon Shaji

Speaking Engagements
Updates on the SEC's Pay to Play Rules
4 September 2024

Investment Advisers Association

Webcast

Speaker: Sheena Paul, Kristin A. Snyder, Jennifer R. Cowan

Speaking Engagements
Pro Bono for In House Attorneys
29 October 2021

New York Life

National Pro Bono Week Lunch and Learn

Webcast

Speaker: Jennifer R. Cowan

Speaking Engagements
28 Days Later: Managing Post-Election Expectations
6 December 2016

New York City Bar

Best Practices: Change - Post-Election Session

New York, New York

Speaker: Jennifer R. Cowan

Speaking Engagements

Jennifer Cowan is the firm’s Pro Bono Counsel and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. She leads the firm’s award-winning pro bono program, which includes litigation, corporate and tax matters, and involves more than 800 pro bono matters each year. She also oversees pro bono initiatives and, with the Co-Chairs of the Pro Bono Committee, sets the strategy for the firm's pro bono work. Ms. Cowan leads teams on a range of pro bono representations including impact litigation, immigration, not-for-profit organization law, and housing matters and mentors and provides strategic guidance to lawyers working on pro bono matters.Her commercial practice includes white collar and regulatory matters, including defense of government investigations, internal investigations and general commercial litigation. Ms. Cowan has extensive experience representing clients in trading inquiries by FINRA after the announcement of corporate transactions and other significant events. She also provides advice to clients on federal, state and local pay-to-play and campaign finance laws.Ms Cowan is a Fellow in the Sterling Network NYC, a decade-long multi-sector network tackling issues of economic mobility in New York City.She is a member of the Board of the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House, in Long Island City; and a member of the Board of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. Her professional affiliations include being a member of the National Women’s Law Center Leadership Advisory Committee; the Pro Bono and Public Service Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the Public Service Committee of the Federal Bar Council; and the Government Relations Committee of Nonprofit New York.Ms. Cowan was the recipient of the Legal Aid Society Public Interest Law Leadership Award in 2021.Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Ms. Cowan was a law clerk to the Hon. Jan E. DuBois in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Cowan received her J.D. in 1997 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Stone Scholar, a research and writing editor for the Journal of Law and Social Problems and a recipient of the James A. Elkins Prize in Constitutional Law. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science, with honors, from Barnard College in 1991.