Amy Cheng and Fredric "Ric" Cohen today announced the formation of Cheng Cohen, LLP, a Chicago-based firm specializing in corporate, franchise, technology and business litigation.

With more than 30 years of combined experience, the lawyers at Cheng Cohen work with companies of all sizes as dedicated outside general counsel or corporate counsel. Cheng Cohen creates legal strategies that protect clients without losing sight of the company's business objectives. The firm also handles all types of business and commercial litigation from simple contract disputes to complex class actions.

In addition, Amy Cheng and Ric Cohen's extensive franchise experience positions Cheng Cohen as one of the best franchise law firms in the Country. Both Cheng and Cohen have been named "legal eagles" by Franchise Times.

Amy Cheng concentrates her practice in domestic and international commercial transactions, general corporate, and franchise, licensing and distribution law.

Before forming Cheng Cohen, Cheng was a partner with DLA Piper US LLP and its predecessor firms for her entire career. She was a member of DLA's Commercial, Corporate and Franchise & Distribution Practice Groups.

Cheng currently co-chairs the Chicago Chapter of the International Franchise Association's (IFA) Women's Franchise Network and previously co- chaired the Chicago Chapter of the IFA's Franchise Business Network. She has also spoken at and moderated roundtables for conferences and seminars sponsored by the American Bar Association Forum on Franchising and the International Franchise Association.

Ric Cohen is a seasoned litigator, trial lawyer and appellate advocate, who represents clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country and in alternative dispute resolution forums such as arbitration and mediation. Cohen has extensive commercial litigation experience in areas that include contract disputes, antitrust, technology, intellectual property, valuation, and securities actions.

For nearly two decades, Cohen has represented many of the nation's most prominent franchise, licensing and distribution companies in a wide variety of lawsuits from complex multi-forum class action litigation to standard enforcement actions and everything in between.

Before forming Cheng Cohen, Cohen was a partner with DLA Piper US LLP and its predecessor firms for nearly his entire career. He was a member of DLA Piper's Litigation and Franchise & Distribution practice groups, co-chaired the firm's Franchise Litigation practice group, and was the firm's hiring partner.

Cohen has been named to The Best Lawyers in America(R) and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and has been selected as a Super Lawyer(R) by "Law & Politics" and "Chicago" magazines, and by his peers as an Illinois Leading Lawyer(R). Cohen is a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the First, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and numerous federal district courts across the country, as well as of the Illinois Supreme Court.