Search results
Jesse Cohn is an Equity Partner and a Managing Partner, supporting Jon Pollock and Paul Singer in overseeing the global situational investing teams. Mr. Cohn is also a member of the Management, Risk, Allocation and Global Situational Investment Committees at Elliott Investment Management L.P. Mr. Cohn is a member of the Advisory Board at the ...
Feb 3, 2014 · Elliott Management's Jesse Cohn is laying siege to Silicon Valley, pushing tech companies into buyouts, share repurchases and cost cuts.
Oct 10, 2019 · Elliott Management's 39-year-old star Jesse Cohn has been behind some of the biggest shareholder battles — and been rewarded handsomely for it.
- An Institutional Elliott
- Cohn Almost Didn't Join Elliott
- The Birth of Elliott's Activism
- 'We're The Aggressors'
- Private Equity Powers
- What AT&T Can Expect
The saga unfolding at AT&T is Cohn's latest work, set on a much grander stage than he has ever stood - a new peak for the $38 billion hedge fund's top lieutenant because of the company's size and influence that he's been building to. A review of his career should be required reading for AT&T's board: From falling into finance as someone who didn't ...
Fifteen years ago, Cohn almost didn't join Elliott. After spending two years on Morgan Stanley's M&A team, Cohn began to look for hedge funds to join, accepting an offer from Elliott, which was then focused only on distressed situations. Cohn then later received an offer from a more "established fund," according to Ray McGuire, his boss at Morgan w...
Cohn started Elliott's activism unit in 2005 with a small investment in switchmaker and Cisco competitor Enterasys Networks, which he pressured to sell, doubling Elliott's investment in the process. The initial investment in Enterasys was only $15 million, but to Cohn it was huge, according to people close to him. He took a shine to hunting down th...
Cohn's reputation as an attack dog intensified during his campaign against healthcare technology company Athenahealth. A feature story in The New Yorkerdetailed his campaign last year against Athenahealth's former CEO Jonathan Bush, who said an anonymous Instagram user had taken pictures of him with a female friend and sent them to his wife. He won...
One weapon in Cohn's arsenal that would make him even more effective came in 2015: a private equity fund Cohn created within Elliott, called Evergreen Coast Capital. The very nature of private equity - buying a company whole and improving its performance over as many as five years - was a departure from Cohn's reputation for seeking immediate chang...
At AT&T, of course, executives don't need to worry about a possible buyout. The company is too large to be acquired outright. Instead, Cohn is seeking to extract concessions from the company's management to conduct its business differently, including halting plans for any merger and acquisition activity, outsourcing work, and closing "redundant sto...
Jan 23, 2023 · Jesse Cohn is at it again. Hedge fund Elliott Management has taken a multi-billion dollar stake in Salesforce, as the tech company deals with layoffs and a management shake-up. And Cohn, one...
Feb 27, 2022 · “There’s elements of public-market investing and there’s elements of private-equity investing,” said Jesse Cohn, a managing partner at Elliott who’s one of the architects of its push ...
People also ask
Who is Jesse Cohn?
Does Jesse Cohn like to sit still?
Does Jesse Cohn store personal data?
How much money does Cohn have under management?
Elliott Management Committee is led by a team of experienced senior executives that perform strategic and oversight functions regarding the operations of the firm. The firm employs a staff of 440 people, including 160 investment professionals, in its New York headquarters.
