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The 64-year-old Cohen, who is a New York native
and a lifelong Mets fan, signed an agreement with Sterling
Partners to buy the team in September.
"It's official, we are closed," Cohen wrote on his personal
Twitter page on Friday.
"I want to thank everybody who helped make this happen. The 2021
season is right around the corner and we've got a lot of work to
do, so I'm excited to get started," he added in a tweet posted
on the team's official page.
"Let's go Mets!"
Cohen, who failed to purchase a majority stake last November,
had to outbid former New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez and his pop
star fiancee Jennifer Lopez to buy the team.
The deal valued the club - which was founded in 1962 and has won
two World Series titles, the last one coming in 1986 - at $2.4
billion, the New York Daily News and Newsday reported.
The transaction ends Fred Wilpon's ownership involvement with
the team, which dates back to 1980.
The owners of the Major League Baseball clubs voted in favor of
the sale last Friday.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles and Aishwarya Nair in
Bengaluru; editing by John Stonestreet)
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