Chair of Diversity Committee
Cozen O’Connor
Rafael Perez has been named chair of the diversity committee at Cozen O’Connor. In this position, Perez will work alongside the firm’s hiring committee to recruit and retain lawyers with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to foster diversity.
A member of the firm’s Newark office, Perez practices with the public and project finance group. He has been involved in a wide variety of public finance projects, acting as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, trustee’s counsel and borrower’s counsel, and has represented investment banks, corporations organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, for-profit corporations, cities, townships, boroughs, states, and their agencies and authorities. He has also represented corporations and financial institutions in transactional and general corporate matters in the United States, Mexico, and South America.
Perez is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He has served as regional president of the National Hispanic Bar Association from 1989–1990, president of the Hispanic Bar Association in New Jersey from 1994–1995, and as a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association from 1996–2002.
Perez earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1981 and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1984. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.