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Stephen Cohen is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Teneo’s Transactions and Strategic Situations Group. He is focused on advising C-Suite executives and Boards on a wide range of financial communications, investor relations and crisis issues. He works with public and private companies as well as private equity firms on a range of reputational issues as well as on domestic and cross-border transactions.

During his tenure at Teneo, Stephen has advised on dozens of M&A transactions, activist and hostile-takeover defense efforts, initial public offerings and litigation and crisis issues. He works with clients in a wide range of industries.

Prior to joining Teneo, Stephen was a Vice President in the Executive Office at Goldman Sachs, where he worked with the executive team on financial communications and rebuilding the firm’s reputation after the financial crisis. Previously, Stephen was a Senior Vice President in Citigroup’s corporate affairs department, where he worked closely with the bank’s senior leadership team in navigating the financial crisis, the failing financial performance of the industry, the U.S. government’s involvement and the reputational backlash of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Stephen began his career as a financial journalist. As a reporter at Bloomberg News, Stephen wrote about financial markets and the financial services industry. In this role, he wrote breaking news stories, as well as in-depth features and profiles for Bloomberg’s Markets Magazine.

Stephen holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is a member of the Newhouse44, the school’s alumni leadership group.

He lives in New York with his wife and two children