Jerome Coben

Lecturer in Law

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Phone: (213) 740-2547
Direct Line: 213-687-5010
Fax: (213) 621-5010
Room: 306E

Jerome L. Coben has a broad-based corporate and securities law practice, representing both issuers and investment banks in a wide variety of corporate finance, merger and acquisition, and general corporate matters. He teaches Corporate Transactions at USC Law.

Coben was one of the founding partners of Skadden’s Los Angeles office in 1983. He has advised many public and private clients. He has served as counsel to Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Wynn Resorts, Limited in connection with many of their offerings of debt and equity securities and in extraordinary corporate transactions. He also has represented, among other public companies, Zenith National Insurance Corp. and Oakley, Inc., including in its $2.1 billion merger with Luxxotica Group S.p.A. Mr. Coben has extensive experience representing special committees of boards of directors.

Mr. Coben devotes substantial time to pro bono activities. For many years he has been a board member of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Constitutional Rights Foundation and the University of Judaism, including in its recent acquisition of Brandeis Bardin Institute, a transaction that resulted in the creation of American Jewish University. He also represented the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a nonprofit corporation founded by Steven Spielberg to videotape and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, in its historic alliance with USC.

In 2004, Mr. Coben was honored by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Committee as the 25th recipient of its Learned Hand Award. The Los Angeles Daily Journal has named him to its list of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in California.”