Ex-Twitter Lawyer Cohen Joins O’Melveny & Myers as Partner

Tod Cohen, former Twitter Inc. deputy general counsel, has joined O’Melveny & Myers as a partner after nearly two decades in-house with technology companies.

Cohen said he’s returning to private practice to work on the complex legal matters corporations typically ship to outside firms. His practice areas at O’Melveny will include corporate & transactional, emerging companies, Internet of Things, mergers and acquisitions, and technology.

“Data protection is one area where the outside counsel are the folks that are really involved,” Cohen told Bloomberg Law, also mentioning competition and antitrust. “In my own practice, in many instances, we would sent the ...