Lester Raymond Brafman - 05 Feb 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for Cohen & Co Inc. (COHN)

Role: Chief Executive Officer
Signature: /s/ Joseph W. Pooler, Jr., as attorney-in-fact
Issuer symbol: COHN
Transactions as of: 05 Feb 2025
Net transactions value: -$497,535
Form type: 4
Filing time: 05 Feb 2025, 16:51:22 UTC
Previous filing: 20 Dec 2024
Next filing: 19 Dec 2025
SEC: View on sec.gov

Derivative Securities (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

Type	Sym	Class	Transaction	Value $	Shares	Change %	* Price $	Shares After	Date	Underlying Class	Amount	Exercise Price	Ownership	Footnotes
transaction	COHN	Cohen & Company, LLC Membership Units	Options Exercise	$497,535	-502,053	-27%	$0.9910	1,388,316	05 Feb 2025	Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	50,205		Direct	F1

* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Explanation of Responses:

Id	Content
F1	Mr. Brafman redeemed 502,053 membership units (the "Units") of Cohen & Company, LLC (the "Operating LLC"), a subsidiary of Cohen & Co Inc. (the "Company"), for an aggregate of $497,534.63, or $0.991 per Unit, in order to fund certain tax liabilities incurred by Mr. Brafman in connection with the vesting, on January 31, 2025, of 610,996 Units and 40,000 restricted shares of the Company's common stock granted to Mr. Brafman under the Company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended. In accordance with the Operating LLC's Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, as amended, Mr. Brafman had the right to redeem the Units at any time for, at the Company's option, (i) cash or (ii) one share of the Company's common stock for every ten Units.

Content

Mr. Brafman redeemed 502,053 membership units (the "Units") of Cohen & Company, LLC (the "Operating LLC"), a subsidiary of Cohen & Co Inc. (the "Company"), for an aggregate of $497,534.63, or $0.991 per Unit, in order to fund certain tax liabilities incurred by Mr. Brafman in connection with the vesting, on January 31, 2025, of 610,996 Units and 40,000 restricted shares of the Company's common stock granted to Mr. Brafman under the Company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended. In accordance with the Operating LLC's Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, as amended, Mr. Brafman had the right to redeem the Units at any time for, at the Company's option, (i) cash or (ii) one share of the Company's common stock for every ten Units.