Adam Cohen

Adam Cohen is the Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

In this role, Mr. Cohen oversees the agency’s Law Department, providing legal analyses and advisory services on bank supervision, enforcement, administrative, litigation, and licensing actions. He also advises on policy and operations initiatives within the OCC, on an interagency basis, and with the Administration. Mr. Cohen serves on the OCC’s Executive Committee and provides advice and counsel to the Comptroller of the Currency and senior OCC executives. He assumed this role in August 2025.

Mr. Cohen most recently served as co-head of the Financial Institutions Regulatory Group at a major international law firm. In that role, he advised global and regional financial institutions and nonbank companies on a broad range of bank regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, banking charters, stablecoin and digital asset issues, anti-money laundering, and other governance, compliance, supervisory, and enforcement issues. Mr. Cohen has also worked in the private sector as the general counsel for a financial institution and has held several positions in the federal government, including at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Mr. Cohen earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Duke University and a law degree from Columbia Law School.