---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-018133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COHN"
cik: "0001270436"
company_name: "Cohen & Co Inc."
filed_at: "2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T01:24:52.598439+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cohen & Co. enters ATM equity distribution agreement for up to $75M common stock

## Summary
- Agreement with Northland Capital Markets and Cohen Securities as sales agents for at-the-market offerings.
- Aggregate offering price up to $75,000,000 of common stock; currently limited to $13,094,305 per SEC rules.
- Commission of 2.5% of gross proceeds on shares sold through each sales agent.
- Prior Equity Distribution Agreement with Northland dated October 5, 2023 terminated.
- Shares issued under existing shelf registration statement (File No. 333-275186).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-018133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COHN
- cik: 0001270436
- company_name: Cohen & Co Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 10.1, 1.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1270436/000110465926018133/0001104659-26-018133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1270436/000110465926018133/tm266883d2_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Cohen & Co Inc. entered into Equity Distribution Agreement with Northland Securities, Inc. (trade name Northland Capital Markets) and Cohen & Company Securities, LLC valued at up to $75,000,000 (effective 2026-02-20).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: atm program
  - Counterparty: Northland Securities, Inc. (trade name Northland Capital Markets) and Cohen & Company Securities, LLC
  - Value: up to $75,000,000
  - Effective: 2026-02-20
  source text: On February 20, 2026, Cohen & Company Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Northland Securities, Inc. (trade name Northland Capital Markets) (“Northland”) and Cohen & Company Securities, LLC (“Cohen Securities”), as sales agents (Cohen Securities and Northland, together, the “Sales Agent”), relating to the issuance and sale from time to time by the Company (the “ATM Program”), through the Sales Agents, of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, having an aggregate offering price of up to $75,000,000 (the “Shares”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1270436/000110465926018133/0001104659-26-018133-index.htm

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