Antitrust lawyers

Elba B. Gutiérrez

Practice Group Attorney

Greenberg Traurig

Elba B. Gutiérrez

Practice Group Attorney

Greenberg Traurig, S.C.

Eliot Adelson

Click here for attorney bio. Eliot Adelson is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Global Antitrust Litigation practice where he handles complex legal issues facing clients in jurisdictions around the world. He provides clients with creative strategies for resolving a broad range of disputes, including civil and criminal antitrust litigation and internal and government investigations. Eliot represents clients across a spectrum of industries, including auto parts, major media companies and TV station operators, banking and finance, communications, and software and technology, among others. Eliot has experience providing unique and complex advice across a range of matters, including internal investigations, civil and criminal cartel investigations, and litigation. Before joining Morrison Foerster, Eliot cultivated an international client base across industries and geographies over his 15-year tenure at another global law firm. Japanese companies look to him for his deep knowledge of antitrust matters. Eliot previously served as a Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County in California. He is on the board of the Contra Costa Senior Legal Services and is a member of the Executive Committee for the Antitrust & UCL Section of the California Lawyers Association. Representative Experience Murata Manufacturing. Represented Murata, a Japanese electric components manufacturer, in a putative class action alleging that certain electronics manufacturers conspired to fix the prices of inductors. Nexstar Media Group. Representing Nexstar in a putative class action alleging that certain television station owners conspired to fix the prices of local television advertising. Represented a major publicly traded REIT in a putative class action filed by renters alleging that multifamily property owners engaged in anticompetitive conduct to increase the price of leases across the United States. Represented a Japanese manufacturer in connection with the TFT-LCD and CRT price fixing cases. Arm Limited. Represented SoftBank Group and Arm Limited on complex antitrust and national security issues arising from NVIDIA’s proposed acquisition of Arm from SoftBank for $65 billion. TIBC. Represented Japanese company TIBC in response to an investigation of the semiconductor packaging industry. Former CEO of G4S Belgium. Representing the former CEO of G4S who has been indicted by the DOJ’s Antitrust Division related to allegations of a conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers for certain contracts. Conducted an internal investigation for Kobe Steel related to alleged data falsification. Represented a group of defendant landowners in a price-fixing case alleging that the defendants fixed prices for land in Solano County. Represented a global pharmaceutical company in a price fixing and market allocation investigation. Tenneco. Represented Tenneco, a Fortune 500 automotive components manufacturer, in connection with DOJ and other enforcement agencies’ auto parts investigations. Represented several individual executives in the DOJ Antitrust Division’s auto parts investigation. Represented several individual executives in the DOJ Antitrust Division’s capacitor investigation. Toyota Industries Corp. Represented Japanese company Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) in connection with the DOJ’s second request concerning TICO’s acquisition of Cascade Corporation. Bain Capital. Represented Bain Capital, a leading multi-asset alternative investment firm, in connection with the DOJ’s second request concerning Big Tex Trailer’s acquisition of American Trailer Works

Morrison Foerster

Eliot Turner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Elizabeth Prewitt

Elizabeth Prewitt, a leading first-chair trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor, defends multinational companies and executives facing high-stakes government antitrust investigations and litigation. Elizabeth has a formidable track record of success leading her clients through government antitrust investigations, managing bet-the-company litigation, and leading the defense in the courtroom. She leverages her insight into the approaches of antitrust and competition enforcers globally to guide clients through: Complex civil investigations initiated by the US DOJ and FTC, and state and foreign competition enforcement agencies Civil and criminal litigation Complex and cross-border cartel investigations Before entering private practice, Elizabeth spent 16 years as a trial lawyer in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). She also served as Assistant Chief of the Antitrust Division in the New York office from 2012 to 2014. She was designated as a Visiting International Enforcer to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition in Brussels. Her work on both sides of the Atlantic uniquely positions her to navigate matters with multinational components and parallel investigations conducted by antitrust enforcers and regulators globally. A two-time recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the Assistant Attorney General’s Award, Elizabeth led the DOJ’s criminal antitrust cartel investigations into some of its largest investigations at the time, including into Libor and Forex rate-rigging alongside parallel inquiries by global competition and fraud enforcers. In recognition of her exceptional experience and reputation globally, she has been selected to serve in senior leadership positions in the International, American and New York State Bar Associations. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the David E. Rockefeller Foundation.

Latham & Watkins

Elizabeth Richmond

Elizabeth Richmond is a globally recognised antitrust lawyer, with a practice spanning the full spectrum of antitrust work, from regulatory advice to litigation. She is consistently ranked in legal directories including Chambers, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal, and the Global Competition Review. In addition to her busy practice, Elizabeth is a frequent speaker and author.

Clifford Chance

Elizabeth Ross

Associate

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Emilee Hargis

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Emilia McKee Vassallo

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Emilio Cucchiara

Of Counsel and Head of Antitrust

Deloitte Legal Italy -Società tra Avvocati a r.l.

Emmet Bondurant

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP

Enrica Schaefer

Enrica Schaefer is an antitrust and competition partner in the Brussels office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has extensive experience of complex cross border merger control, including in-depth reviews by and remedies negotiations with the European Commission and authorities in other jurisdictions. She also manages the growing impact of foreign direct investment and foreign subsidies regulations on deals. Enrica’s behavioural practice covers investigations into anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominance, as well as ensuing litigation. She is also actively advising on emerging digital regulatory regimes including the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Eric Barbier de la Serre

Jones Day

Eric Bruce

Partner and US Head of disputes, litigation and arbitration, and global investigations

Freshfields

Eric Cramer

Eric L. Cramer is the Chairman of our firm, working out of its Philadelphia headquarters. He co-chairs the Firm’s antitrust department, and leads multiple antitrust class actions around the United States—including representing mixed martial arts fighters against the UFC, which resulted in a $375 million settlement; broiler chicken growers against major chicken integrator companies securing a $169 million in settlements; the City of Asheville and health plans against HCA/Mission Hospital alleging monopolization; current and former students of seventeen elite universities charging those universities with colluding to suppress financial aid, and securing $319 million in settlements to date; and a class of internet publishers charging Google with monopolizing its advertising technology business. Throughout his thirty-year career, he has secured settlements for his clients totaling well over $4 billion. Mr. Cramer has been recognized by Chambers USA for over 20 years, most recently noting that our clients find that “Eric is a top-notch lawyer.” Chambers has also noted that “He excels in economic analysis. He is a real leader;” and that he has “a great presence in court and at trial,” and is at the “[t]op of the profession; a phenomenal lawyer who is an expert on economics.” The Legal 500 has named Mr. Cramer a Philadelphia Elite Lawyer in its inaugural 2025 guide and highlights that he has led major disputes in the sports, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and education sectors. Law360 named Mr. Cramer a Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar. The Legal 500 has recognized him in their Hall of Fame as well as a Legal 500 US Elite for Philadelphia, which recognizes lawyers at the very top of the profession. The Legal 500 is widely known and respected by peers and clients for its longstanding involvement in market-leading work. He was identified as a “Distinguished Leader” by The Legal Intelligencer and as a “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers in America has further recognized Mr. Cramer in the areas of Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation, Consumer Protection Law, and Litigation – Antitrust. Public Justice honored Mr. Cramer with their Champion of Justice award for his body of work supporting access to justice. And The National Law Journal awarded Mr. Cramer the Keith Givens Visionary Award, which was developed to honor an outstanding trial lawyer who has moved the legal industry forward. He has won the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice several times for his work in three different antitrust class actions: In re Capacitors Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Cal.), In re Broilers Antitrust Litig. (E.D. Okl.), and Castro v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (D.N.J.). Mr. Cramer’s work in In re Capacitors was also recognized by Public Justice in nominating that case as a finalist for its prestigious trial lawyer of the year award in 2024. In 2025, Mr. Cramer was named to Lawdragon’s Inaugural Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers Guide. Mr. Cramer is a long-time board member and former President of Public Justice is on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute; and is a former President of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL). Mr. Cramer has also written widely in the fields of class certification and antitrust law. Among other writings, Mr. Cramer has co-authored Antitrust, Class Certification, and the Politics of Procedure, 17 George Mason Law Review 4 (2010), which was cited by both the First Circuit in In re Nexium Antitrust Litig., 777 F.3d 9, 27 (1st Cir. 2015), and the Third Circuit in Behrend v. Comcast Corp., 655 F.3d 182, 200, n.10 (3d Cir. 2011). Mr. Cramer is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. Mr. Cramer lives in Philadelphia; is married to a wonderful woman; has two incredible fully-grown children; and is managed by two somewhat friendly cats.

Berger Montague

Eric Grannon

Partner

White & Case LLP

Eric Hochstadt

Partner

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Eric J. Hobbs

Partner

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Eric Paroche

Partner

Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP

Eric Seiler

Eric Seiler, a founder of Friedman Kaplan, is well known for his work in high-stakes complex commercial litigation, including in matters of first impression. He has a broad-based practice in federal and state courts which includes substantial, ongoing experience acting as lead counsel in significant jury and non-jury trials and arbitrations. His areas of focus include securities, complex contractual disputes, business torts, insurance, accountants' liability, antitrust, and employment litigation and arbitration. He also advises clients in connection with internal investigations. Representative Matters Representation of a group of lenders holding over $600 million of first-lien debt in Serta Simmons Bedding in closely watched lawsuits in New York state and federal courts and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas challenging the validity and legality of the company's uptier transaction with another group of lenders. Representation of WeWork co-founder and former CEO and Chairman Adam Neumann and affiliated company We Holdings LLC in a Delaware Chancery Court action, which was consolidated with an action commenced by a Special Committee of WeWork’s Board of Directors, challenging the decision of WeWork’s majority institutional shareholder to terminate a multibillion-dollar tender offer. Representation of the largest creditor of PG&E in successfully prosecuting multibillion-dollar insurance subrogation claims, for injuries arising out of the 2017 and 2018 North Bay wildfires, in one of most complex bankruptcy cases in U.S. history. Representation of Caesars Entertainment Corporation in defense of federal and chancery court lawsuits brought by various creditor groups alleging that certain transactions violated the terms of bond issuances and the Trust Indenture Act. Representation of GSO Capital Partners in litigation challenging its refinancing of debt issued by New Jersey-based home builder Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. Representation of Wells Fargo & Co. and Wachovia in connection with a multibillion-dollar dispute with Citigroup arising out of the acquisition of Wachovia by Wells Fargo during the financial crisis.

Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP

Eric Sitarchuk

Eric represents clients in government investigations and white-collar litigation. With 30 years of experience in this area, he represents clients in a wide variety of white-collar criminal matters, False Claims Act (FCA) and qui tam litigation, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other complex federal and state investigations. Working with boards of directors, audit committees, and corporate management, Eric has conducted numerous internal investigations, and advised on the creation and implementation of corporate compliance and ethics programs. He serves as chair of the firm’s white collar and corporate investigations practice. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Eric defends clients in federal criminal and civil cases that allege healthcare fraud; defense contract fraud; FCPA violations and other official corruption; securities fraud; antitrust violations; import/export offenses; theft of trade secrets; money laundering; drug diversion; tax fraud; pyramid schemes; commercial bribery; and environmental violations. In defending organizations and individuals during US government investigations, Eric has persuaded prosecutors to take no action and close investigations of Fortune 500 companies, large healthcare institutions, and prominent lawyers, executives, and public officials. He has tried numerous cases. Eric has been listed in International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers (2003–2015) and International Who's Who of Investigations (2014–2016).

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Erica Chong

Partner

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Erica Iverson

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Erica Weisgerber

Erica S. Weisgerber is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Special Situations team whose practice focuses on restructuring and distressed investment litigation. Ms. Weisgerber has advised clients on restructuring- and litigation-related issues arising in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, intercreditor and lender disputes, and other distressed situations across a diverse range of industries. Her extensive experience includes litigation relating to out-of-court financings and restructuring transactions, clawback claims arising out of domestic and international insolvencies, intercreditor claims, post-bankruptcy litigation trustee claims, and debtor and creditor representations. Ms. Weisgerber’s bankruptcy experience includes a range of debtor and creditor representations, adversary proceedings and contested matters in cases under Chapters 11 and 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and cross-border insolvency proceedings. Ms. Weisgerber also regularly represents investment banks in their retentions by major constituencies in Chapter 11 proceedings. She was named to Bloomberg Law’s nationwide “The Top 40 Under 40”, Law360’s 2023 Top Attorneys Under 40 for Bankruptcy and was recognized in 2020 by Turnarounds & Workouts in their annual list of twelve Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers in the United States. She was also selected as a member of the 2020 Class of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 40 Under 40 and was awarded The M&A Advisor’s 2021 Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year (over $1B) for her role as counsel to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as co-sponsor of Neiman Marcus in its Chapter 11 restructuring. Ms. Weisgerber is ranked by Chambers USA (2024) as a leading lawyer in Bankruptcy/Restructuring, where clients describe her as “extremely hard-working and very knowledgeable about the subject matter as well as the wider industry” and have praised her “ability to distill complex issues into simple concepts when arguing in front of the court.” Ms. Weisgerber is recognized as one of the “500 Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon (2024). Ms. Weisgerber’s broader commercial litigation practice also includes significant experience in federal and state courts litigating complex commercial and antitrust litigations. Her antitrust practice includes representing plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation, representing clients before antitrust agencies in government reviews of proposed transactions and counseling clients with respect to antitrust issues associated with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and competitor’s exchange of information. Ms. Weisgerber is recommended for her antitrust litigation and merger control practice in The Legal 500 US (2024), and ranked as a leading antitrust lawyer by Chambers USA (2024). She also maintains an active pro bono practice and is a 2012 and 2013 recipient of The Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publico Award for outstanding service to The Legal Aid Society and its clients. She has also been recognized as Empire State Counsel by the New York State Bar Association for her pro bono contributions. Most recently, she represented The Big Apple Circus, as a pro bono client, in litigation arising during the course of its Chapter 11 case. Ms. Weisgerber is a member of the Bar of New York and is admitted to appear before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third and Tenth Circuits; and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Weisgerber is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, for which she serves on the membership and programming committees. Ms. Weisgerber is an active speaker and author on issues relating to restructuring and bankruptcy litigation. Ms. Weisgerber is a member of the New York State Bar Association, for which she serves as vice chair of the Antitrust Section. She previously served on the executive committees of the New York State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section and the Commercial & Federal Litigation Section. She is also an active member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section and Litigation Section. She serves as an editor of the Antitrust Law Journal and previously served as a Vice Chair of the Antitrust Section’s Legislation Committee. She is also a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers, for which she has served as chair of programming for NAWL’s Annual Meeting and chair of NAWL’s membership committee. Ms. Weisgerber also serves as an editor-in-chief of the Debevoise Women’s Review. Ms. Weisgerber joined the firm in 2008. From 2009 to 2010, she clerked for the Hon. Joseph Bianco of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Weisgerber received a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008, where she was Order of the Coif and managing editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She received an A.B. magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 2005.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP