John F. Cove, Jr.

Partner
Oakland

t: 510 874 1002
f: 510 874 1460

jcove@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Antitrust

Securities Litigation

White-Collar /
Business Crimes

Education

St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1984; Executive Notes and Comments Editor, St. John’s Law Review; St. Thomas More Scholar

University of Maryland - College Park, B.A., English Literature, 1978

Clerkships

Hon. Edward D. Re, Chief Judge, United States Court of International Trade, 1984-86

Admissions

New York and California

John F. Cove, Jr. specializes in antitrust litigation and counseling.

Since joining the firm as a partner in 2001, Mr. Cove has represented plaintiffs and defendants in a number of antitrust matters, including price fixing, boycott, and monopolization cases, direct and indirect purchaser class actions, and unfair competition actions in federal and state courts across the nation. Mr. Cove has also represented clients in federal grand jury investigations of alleged cartel activity and other criminal offenses and in premerger reviews before federal and state antitrust authorities. Mr. Cove's antitrust work spans a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, software, semiconductors and related high-technology industries, credit cards, airlines, chemicals, and food and other consumer products. Before joining the firm, Mr. Cove was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, where he prosecuted criminal price fixing and bid rigging cases, conducted premerger reviews, litigated challenges to anticompetitive mergers, and served as a senior member of the trial team in United States v. Microsoft.

Mr. Cove is a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the California State Bar. He was a contributing author of The Merger Review Process, ABA Antitrust Practice Handbook (1995) and is currently drafting the chapter on Monopolization for the treatise California Antitrust Law. He has taught and lectured on antitrust issues before a variety of audiences, including state, local and foreign antitrust authorities, and has been named a Northern California "Super Lawyer" for antitrust.

In addition to his antitrust work, Mr. Cove maintains an active securities and general commercial litigation practice, and has defended corporations and individuals in class and non-class actions alleging securities fraud and related offenses in federal and state courts, and in proceedings with the SEC.