Resolving Antitrust Matters Efficiently

Facing antitrust issues is consequential, time-consuming, and expensive.

As a former Global Antitrust Partner at Baker & McKenzie (through 6/20), I use my 40+ years of experience with merger control, internal investigation, litigation and compliance training to:

  • Advise on antitrust matters

  • Resolve antitrust matters efficiently while managing increased workloads and smaller budgets

  • Provide hands on expertise and supervision as an internal antitrust lawyer for the duration of the matter

  • Organize and conduct internal investigations, define issues, formulate and execute a course of action

  • Guide companies on selecting external legal counsel, where needed, and oversee the relationship

I provide big law expertise and litigation experience for a negotiated flat monthly fee.

Recently, I advised on the antitrust aspects of approximately ten mergers. On January 25, 2023, he presented commentary to the Antitrust Committee of the New York City Bar Association on possible changes to the DOJ/FTC merger guidelines, and on March 23, 2022, he spoke to the Committee about the first U.S. antitrust case brought against parties from the P.R.C.

I have 40+ years of experience helping companies resolve antitrust matters:

  • Created antitrust strategy for global market leader in mobile phones resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in annual recurring cost savings in patent license fees

  • Took lead for capacitor industry to carve 90% of the commerce out of antitrust class actions under the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (In re: Capacitors Antitrust Litigation)

  • Defended first US antitrust case brought against companies based in the P.R.C. (In re: Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation)

  • Achieved low-cost settlement of antitrust class actions for a manufacturer of oil, air and fuel filters (In re: Filters Aftermarket Antitrust Litigation)

  • Obtained merger clearance from MOFCOM (P.R.C.) of a $1.2 billion acquisition for a US-based tech hardware company in one of the early pre-merger reviews under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law

  • Internal Investigations: Internal antitrust investigation of possible contacts with competitors

I have worked with companies across many industries and countries:

Industries:

Aircraft, apparel, insurance, banking, electronic components, farm equipment, food ingredients, insurance, minerals, paper, pharmaceuticals, and vitamins

Countries:

U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands

My credentials:

Harvard Law School, JD Harvard College, AB, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Awarded Knox Fellowship for study in the UK

Bar Admissions: New York State, US District Courts for Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, numerous case-specific pro hac vice admissions, US Supreme Court

I was a Partner in the antitrust group at Baker & McKenzie from 2005 until June 2020 and prior to that was a Partner at Coudert Brothers, where I was co-head of the antitrust group. I have 45 years of experience solving antitrust and regulatory issues for companies.

Professional Honors & Publications:

  • Contributor, Global Guide to Competition Litigation, June 2020

  • Listed in Euromoney’s 2018 Guide to the World’s Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers

  • Member of Top Five Global Elite Antitrust Practice, Global Competition Review

  • Co-Editor and Contributor, Joint Ventures in the International Arena, ABA, 2010

Professional Associations:

  • Antitrust Committee, New York City Bar Association (2016-2019; Former Division Chair, Publications Chair, Programs Chair and Council Member, ABA, International Law Section

  • Member of ABA Antitrust Section