Michael Cohen

Antitrust and Competition

Michael is an International Competition partner in Sheppard Mullin's Washington, D.C. office.

For more than thirty years, Michael has advised multinational businesses in all aspects of their cross-border competition practices and strategies, and defended those practices in global government investigations and enforcement actions spanning continents.  He has successfully helped marshal multiple mergers through trial and appeal in the United States, where uniquely the government must seek court approval to stop a transaction.

Michael hosts the Nota Bene podcast, a weekly series for global business executives addressing regulatory questions impacting multinationals doing business without borders in the world’s major economic markets.  The Nota Bene podcast reaches listeners in more than 100 nations around the world, and has exceeded 35,000 downloads. Listeners can subscribe and listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher or the Sheppard Mullin website.

Michael currently teaches Comparative International Competition Law at Washington & Lee University School of Law.  He served on the University of Tokyo faculty helping teach that institution’s summer 2010 International Competition Law curriculum to students from Beijing University, Seoul University and the University of Tokyo.  And he has served on the Monterey College of Law faculty, teaching Constitutional Law and Business Organizations.

Michael is among a handful of professionals who helped pioneer a field forming environmental joint ventures melding industry, science, NGO communities and governments.  Since its formation and founding, he has represented the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, hailed in Ted Talks and other forms of global thought leadership as a hallmark of success in this important space. Michael is also an accomplished artist and poet.  His paintings and published poetry collections can be found at www.mpac.art.

J.D., Washington and Lee University - School of Law, 1990, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Lead Articles Editor, Washington & Lee Law Review

B.A., Virginia Tech, 1987