Jonathan V. Cohen
Partner

Areas of Practice Telecommunications Law International Telecommunications Corporate and Commercial Transactions Education J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1982 B.S. (Economics), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1978 Bar Admissions District of Columbia, 1983

Jonathan V. Cohen has extensive experience in telecommunications and mass media law gained through positions in both government and private practice. He works with clients on both transactional matters and regulatory policy advocacy. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Cohen spent five and a half years in senior positions at the FCC and The White House. He served as Assistant Counsel to President Clinton in the Office of Presidential Personnel, and held several senior staff positions at the FCC, advising two FCC Chairmen and working in the Office of Plans and Policy, Mass Media Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Before entering government service, Mr. Cohen practiced law in Washington, D.C., representing cellular telephone system operators, broadcasters and cable television system operators.  His articles appear periodically in telecom publications and he is a frequent speaker at telecom industry conventions, conferences and seminars.

During his FCC tenure, Mr. Cohen co-authored the rules for FCC spectrum auctions and directed the FCC's first broadband PCS auction.  He also helped establish new digital television and political programming policies, formulated competition policy for new and innovative spectrum uses, and worked on ensuring that wireline carriers addressed the Year 2000 computer transition. Mr. Cohen also was counsel to the President's Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

Membership, Affiliation, and Recognition

• Member, Federal Communications Bar Association
• Three-year Co-Chair, Federal Communications Bar Association’s Committee on Global Telecommunications Development
• One of 86 Attorneys Nationwide Named to the BTI Transactions All-Star Team
• Member, Media and Telecom Policy Group, Obama for President Campaign
• U.S. Department of State Private Sector Advisor,  World Telecommunications Development Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
• Recipient, Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Review for Reinventing Government’s “Hammer Award”
• Recipient, Dealmaker of the Month, The American Lawyer magazine

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