Gary Cooper is a senior attorney in the firm's Litigation Department. He specializes in general civil litigation with a focus on antitrust, intellectual property, consumer protection, trade regulation and regulatory matters in the federal courts and before federal and state administrative agencies. Mr. Cooper joined Goodwin Procter in February 2000 after having spent many years as a senior trial lawyer for the federal government in Boston.

Mr. Cooper has extensive litigation and counseling experience on behalf of a wide range of corporate and individual clients in antitrust, intellectual property, trade regulation, consumer protection and securities regulations matters, and before federal agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission and self-regulatory organizations such as the NASD and the NYSE. He has represented corporate clients and prepared regulatory filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act in many mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Cooper also recently appeared as trial counsel on behalf of Waste Management in its successful defense of antitrust claims.