Please join the Harvard Association for Law and Business for a discussion with Barry Cohen, Managing Director of Apollo Management and Chief Operating Officer of Apollo Global Securities.

Mr. Cohen joined Apollo in 2008. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Apollo Management, L.P. and Chief Operating Officer of Apollo Global Securities, LLC. Since 2017, Mr. Cohen also serves as the President of Elysium Management LLC, a limited liability company that manages the family office for Leon Black. Before joining Apollo, Mr. Cohen was with Bear Stearns. Mr. Cohen joined Bear Stearns in 1987 as head of its Risk Arbitrage Department, where he also co-headed the Bear Stearns Global Equity Arbitrage Funds. From 2003 to 2008, he worked in Bear Stearns Asset Management. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Cohen was a risk arbitrageur at First Boston Corporation, a partner in Bedford Partners, a risk arbitrage hedge fund, and an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Mr. Cohen graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in Applied Mathematics and received JD and MBA degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively. Mr. Cohen is a member of the board of directors of the Mt. Sinai Children’s Center Foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and Phaidon Press Limited.