Jay Cohen > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices

1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10019-6064
NEW YORK
United States
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Jay Cohen

Work Department
Litigation, Antitrust, Cybersecurity & Data Protection, Employment, Insurance, IP Litigation: Copyright & Trademark, International Arbitration, M&A Litigation, Media & Entertainment, Securities Litigation, White Collar & Regulatory Defense
Position
Click here for attorney bio.
Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1980 cum laude
A.B., Cornell University, 1977 magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, renowned for its cable TV representation, also assists a wealth of media stakeholders. Brad Karp co-chairs the practice, and recently resolved a multibillion-dollar securities and class action lawsuit involving the CBS board of directors. Lynn Bayard is highly regarded by her sport and entertainment clients for her work on complex intellectual property issues. Co-chair Jessica Carey is valued for her ability to manage high-profile class actions and discreet arbitrations. Jay Cohen is a music specialist that acts as lead counsel to ASCAP. Former Assistant Solicitor General to the DOJ, Kannon Shanmugam, is a top appellate lawyer based in Washington DC. All mentioned lawyers are based in New York unless otherwise stated.
United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
(Leading trial lawyers)Jay Cohen in New York, who was previously the chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP‘s litigation department, recently secured an extremely favorable outcome on behalf of Barnes & Noble in a defamation matter as well as representing Citigroup in derivative lawsuit. On top of significant expertise in antitrust trials, Cohen is a particularly prominent lawyer in the digital rights and licensing rates arena and was instrumental in the cable industry’s defense against carriage discrimination complaints.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media and entertainment: litigation United States > Media, technology and telecoms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism