Alex Cohen joined the US Department of Justice in April 2020. Prior to this, Alex Cohen was an associate in the New York office of Constantine Cannon where his practice focused on antitrust and complex commercial litigation. Alex Cohen had served as an assistant attorney general in the New York Attorney General’s Antitrust Bureau. While at the NYAG’s office, he investigated and litigated cases in a variety of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, advertising, and retail. Alex Cohen received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he was an Associate Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law. While in law school, he served as a law clerk at the Federal Trade Commission, where he worked on merger investigations in the health care industry. Alex Cohen also served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Richard K. Eaton of the United States Court of International Trade and as a legal intern in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. He earned his B.A. from Rutgers University. He is also active in the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section and has served since 2015 as an editor for the Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committee’s Health Care Antitrust Week-In-Review newsletter.
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DOJ AGREEMENT TO USE BINDING ARBITRATION TO RESOLVE MERGER DISPUTE COULD HERALD NEW APPROACH IN ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT* Federal antitrust enforcers may be increasingly looking to arbitrators—instead of federal courts—to be the arbiters of competition law if a new approach in enforcement takes (...)
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FTC Approval of Staples-Essendant Merger Exposes Fault Lines on Merger Enforcement* The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) recent approval of Staples, Inc.’s acquisition of office supply wholesaler Essendant, Inc.—on a party-line three-to-two vote—reveals the agency’s divergent (...)
