Scott P. Cooper has been successfully litigating complex commercial cases for over 30 years at every level of the state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Scott concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation, including antitrust, sports, financial, securities, and intellectual property disputes. He has extensive experience in domestic and international business litigation, including class and other representative actions, involving a broad range of products, services, technology and proprietary information.
An experienced antitrust litigator, Scott has represented clients in federal and state antitrust litigations in numerous industries including professional and collegiate sports, financial services, insurance, television and motion pictures, pharmaceuticals, energy, and health care. He also has experience in state and federal civil and criminal antitrust investigations and grand jury proceedings, and extensive counseling of clients in the pre-dispute transactional setting.
Scott represents clients in the sports industry such as Major League Baseball in league governance disputes and antitrust litigation, and the Pac-12 Conference in antitrust litigation. In securities and other business litigations, Scott represents clients in derivative and shareholder class actions concerning proposed mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and financing. He also represents clients in complex financial industry litigations relating to public and structured finance transactions and has defended consumer class and other representative actions in diverse other industries such as health care, propane, and weight loss.