Cohen & Gresser LLP

Antitrust & Competition; White Collar Defense & Regulation; Litigation & Arbitraton

Partner

Allon Lifshitz is a partner in Cohen & Gresser’s New York office. His practice focuses on white collar criminal cases, complex civil litigation, antitrust cases, government investigations, and internal investigations.

In his white collar practice, Allon represents individuals who are targets and subjects of investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York. In his civil practice, he represents a variety of companies in cases alleging, among other things, breach of contract, fraud, negligence, and theft of trade secrets.

Allon has been selected to the 2025 Super Lawyers New York Metro list and named among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for 2026.

Prior to joining Cohen & Gresser, Allon was a federal prosecutor for 14 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Most recently, Allon was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, overseeing more than 100 AUSAs across the Criminal Division’s nine sections. Previously, he served as Chief of the Organized Crime & Gangs Section.

In addition to these roles, during his tenure as an AUSA Allon led teams handling some of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s most significant matters, including a corporate foreign bribery case implicating national security interests, which became the basis for several DOJ policies governing corporate resolutions, and a corporate cybercrime case. He tried 10 cases, argued seven appeals in the Second Circuit, and investigated and supervised cases involving a variety of crimes, including foreign bribery, health care fraud, racketeering, securities fraud, money laundering, wire fraud, national security offenses, and public corruption offenses, as well as asset forfeiture.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Allon worked as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Allon is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a peer-selected honorary society of trial lawyers comprised of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Council’s Federal Criminal Practice Committee and the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law and Criminal Justice Sections. Allon currently serves as Chair of the Constitution & Rules Committee of the United States Tennis Association, and is a member of the USTA’s Governance Task Force.

He was previously a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he taught, with a federal judge, a seminar about federal litigation.

Harvard Law School (J.D., 2003); University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2000)