Lawrence Cohen

Mr. Cohen founded Pembroke Companies, Inc., a commercial and residential real estate investment, development, and management enterprise. Prior to forming Pembroke in 1992, Mr. Cohen was a Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co. and Bear Stearns Real Estate Group, Inc., where he was responsible for the initiation and management of joint ventures with Japanese financial institutions for the acquisition and syndication of U.S. real estate to Japanese investors in cross-border partnerships. Before that, Mr. Cohen served as a First Vice President in the Real Estate Group of Integrated Resources Inc., where he was responsible for the acquisition, financing and asset management of in excess of $1 billion in commercial real estate. Mr. Cohen began his career as an attorney with the New York law firm of Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn. Mr. Cohen is a cum laude graduate of the Syracuse University School of Management and earned his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. He is a member of the bar of both New York and Florida.