Jeffrey Alan Cohen

Jeffrey A. Cohen serves as Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. He counsels clients in complex litigation disputes and provides guidance to proactively address business formation and transaction issues. He has spent over 23 years helping clients anticipate, address and resolve the day-to-day challenges and pragmatic decisions facing today’s businesses. A trial lawyer by trade, Mr. Cohen works with businesses to ensure partnerships are intact as well as to identify potential risks and pitfalls associated with its evolution. He collaborates with a diverse range of clients in matters related to commercial contracts, shareholder and partnership agreements, trademarks, copyrights, patents, including Hatch-Waxman, insurance coverage, franchise disputes and commercial construction.

Prior to joining Flaster Greenberg, he served as in-house counsel for two national insurance companies and worked at an AmLaw 100 firm, experience lending strength to his track record in arbitrations, bench and jury trials, contract and settlement negotiations, and all aspects of discovery in state, federal and appellate courts. He has represented clients in matters including:

• Shareholder and partnership disputes
• Hostile Takeover, Shareholder Oppression and Minority Drag-Along disputes
• Commercial contract disputes
• Commercial loan, insurance, bond and surety disputes
• Copyright infringement involving national and local contractors and builders
• Infringement of jewelry designs of a jewelry manufacturer and designer
• Franchise litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings regarding breaches of franchise agreement, obligations to modernize and upgrade facilities consistent with franchise policies and procedures and franchisor/franchisee rights of use and ownership of intellectual property, including trademarks and copyrights
• Hatch-Waxman/ANDA litigation involving pharmaceutical developers and manufacturers, including:
• In Re: Desloratadine Patent Litigation - MDL1851
• Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. v. Sandoz, Inc., et al (aripiprazole)
• Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al (oxaliplatin)
• Sepracor, Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al (eszopiclone)
• Trademark infringement for retailers and builders
• Defense of copyrights for a music production and development company

Mr. Cohen has also been active in the formulation of federal and state policy as well as legislative initiatives in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC. He has served on the Advisory Board of the South Jersey Pharmaceutical and Medical Technology Industry Alliance (SJPMTIA), and was a featured panelist with CEOs, Chamber presidents and former governors at a SJPMTIA Conference dealing with the intellectual property and litigation avoidance issues involving "What it Takes to Attract a Pharmaceutical, High Tech or R&D Firm to Our Region," held at Rowan University.

Mr. Cohen appears on the 610 ESPN Philadelphia radio show Heart of Sports every Friday from 5 – 6 PM to discuss legal issues in professional and amateur sports, including the application of antitrust laws. He also recently presented, as a faculty member, for the National Business Institute at a full day event regarding LLC Operating Agreements. He served as the lead faculty member and presenter regarding trends in LLC litigation and litigation prevention techniques, as well as key trends.