{"id":141297,"date":"2026-01-28T15:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141297\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:48:32","slug":"cohen-company-opens-houston-energy-investment-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141297\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen &#038; Company opens Houston energy investment office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment bank Cohen &amp; Co. Capital Markets has opened a Houston office to serve as the hub of its energy advisory business and has tapped investment banking veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rahuljasuja\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rahul Jasuja<\/a> as the office\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p>Jasuja joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohencm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Cohen &amp; Co. Capital Markets<\/a>, a subsidiary of financial services company Cohen &amp; Co., as managing director, and head of energy and energy transition investment banking. Cohen\u2019s capital markets arm closed $44 billion worth of deals last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jasuja previously worked at energy-focused Houston investment bank Mast Capital Advisors, where he was managing director of investment banking. Before Mast Capital, Jasuja was director of energy investment banking in the Houston office of Wells Fargo Securities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeeting rising [energy] demand will require disciplined capital allocation across traditional energy, sustainable fuels, and firm, dispatchable solutions such as nuclear and geothermal,\u201d Jasuja said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/cohenandcompany.com\/2026\/01\/12\/cohen-company-announces-appointment-of-senior-leadership-to-expand-energy-and-energy-transition-capabilities\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a>. \u201cHouston remains the center of gravity where capital, operating expertise, and execution come together to make that transition investable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Houston office will focus on four energy verticals:<\/p>\n<p>Energy systems such as nuclear and geothermalEnergy supply chainsEnergy-transition fuel and technologyTraditional energy\u201cWe are making a committed investment in Houston because we believe the infrastructure powering AI, defense, and energy transition \u2014 from nuclear to rare-earth technology \u2014 represents the next secular cycle of value creation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohencm.com\/jerry-serowik\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Serowik<\/a>, head of Cohen &amp; Co. Capital Markets, added in the release. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/energycapitalhtx.com\/cohen-co-houston-energy-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EnergyCaptialHTX.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles Around the Web<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investment bank Cohen &amp; Co. Capital Markets has opened a Houston office to serve as the hub of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6880,59505,59504,56,58,57,59507,2874,59506],"class_list":["post-141297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-banking","tag-cohen-company","tag-energy-sector","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-investment-firm","tag-opening","tag-rahul-jasuja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}