John F. Cove, Jr. is an of counsel with Shearman & Sterling in the San Francisco office. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of antitrust matters, including monopolization, price fixing, and vertical restraints cases, direct and indirect purchaser class actions, unfair competition actions, federal grand jury investigations and related international investigations, and premerger reviews before federal and state antitrust authorities. Before joining the firm, John Cove was a trial attorney in the US DOJ’s Antitrust Division, and served as a senior member of the DOJ’s trial team in United States v. Microsoft. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the State Bar of California.
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Introduction Last week, the FTC announced two significant moves. First, the FTC brought its first major standalone Section 5 actions, targeting certain companies’ employment noncompete agreements as unfair methods of competition. The very next day, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (Division) finally will consider the existence of effective antitrust compliance programs at the (...)
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This ruling has important implications for antitrust analysis, not only for the credit card industry, but for other industries that operate in two-sided, or even multisided platform markets where firms must compete simultaneously for different groups of customers whose demands are distinct but (...)
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Interview conducted by John F. Cove, Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, California. You have been a partner in a prominent law firm, a high-ranking antitrust enforcer for the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), and now, a general counsel of a leading technology company – one that has (...)
