Antitrust lawyers

Erica Zolner

Co-Managing Partner

Redgrave LLP

Erik Koons

Partner Chair - Antitrust Consumer Products

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Erin Johnston

Erin Johnston is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Erin has represented several Fortune 500 companies and household names, helping them to resolve complex business disputes in state and federal courts across the country. She has successfully handled class actions, securities and accounting fraud cases, contract disputes, antitrust matters, government investigations, and appeals. In each instance, she is trusted to take ownership of her clients’ cases, no matter how complicated, sensitive, or high profile they may be. Erin was named a "Rising Star" in Business Litigation by Super Lawyers. Erin earned her law degree from the NYU School of Law and her B.A. cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles. In law school, Erin interned with both the Innocence Project and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She has continued that civic commitment at Kirkland, receiving the firm’s Pro Bono Service Award multiple times. Erin also holds several leadership roles within the firm, including as Chair of the Women’s Leadership Initiative in the D.C. office, for which she was profiled in Washington Lawyer Magazine.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Ermanno Vaglio

Associate Partner

Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati

Eugenia Gambarara

Senior Associate

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Eva Cole

Winston Taylor

Eva Yung

Counsel

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Evan Boyle

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Eyitayo \"Tee\" St. Matthew-Daniel

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

F. Joseph Warin

F. Joseph Warin is chair of the 250-person Litigation Department of Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and co-chair of the White-Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. His expertise includes white collar crime, securities enforcement, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, False Claims Act cases, audit committee and special committee representations, compliance counselling and complex civil and class action litigation. He has defended complex litigation in more than 35 states, including achieving dismissals of several securities class actions. He has served as Compliance Monitor/advisor in three FCPA government prosecutions.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Fang Qi

Partner

Fangda Partners

Fang-Yi Jen

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Farrell J. Malone

Farrell Malone advises market-leading companies on the antitrust aspects of complex, high stakes mergers and acquisitions in the US and worldwide. Farrell leverages nearly two decades’ experience across a broad spectrum of highly scrutinized industries to guide clients through: Global merger review processes Antitrust investigations and enforcement Follow-on litigation Drawing on his extensive economics background, Farrell helps clients navigate the transactional complexities inherent in US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reviews and investigations. Farrell seamlessly integrates with his Latham M&A colleagues and in-house deal teams to mitigate antitrust risk from deal inception to deal close and address any post-closing issues. He has driven strategy for some of the highest profile global deals in recent years and helps clients maintain antitrust compliance across the full scope of their business. Farrell's substantial international practice involves coordinating strategy for merger clearance in major jurisdictions worldwide, including Europe, Brazil, China, and India, among others. Farrell has three years’ experience practicing competition law in Brussels, Belgium. A recognized leader at the firm, Farrell is a member of the Training and Career Enhancement Committee, which serves to train the next generation of Latham lawyers.

Latham & Watkins

Faustine Viala

Faustine Viala is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Faustine has experience in European and French competition law. Her main areas of practice encompass merger control, anticompetitive practices (anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominant position) and distribution law. Faustine advises French and international companies mainly active in the fields of media, sports, chemical industry, aeronautic, cosmetics and telecoms, focusing both on counseling and litigation.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Favio Batres

Director

Dentons Central America

Federico Marini Balestra

Partner

Bird & Bird

Ferdinando Emanuele

Ferdinando Emanuele is a partner and co-head of the firm’s international arbitration practice. He specialises in national and international litigation and arbitration, with particular focus on civil law and commercial law. Key sectors of expertise include procurement, aviation, antitrust, banking, finance, public international law, telecommunications and sports.

BonelliErede

Fernando Goldaracena

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Fernando Montano

Partner

Arias

Fernando Samaniego

Partner

Prieto Abogados

Franca Poll-Wolbeck

Counsel

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER

Francesca Gesualdi

Francesca Gesualdi is a Partner in our Litigation & Dispute resolution practice. Her practice focuses on both domestic and international litigation and arbitration. She advises Italian and global corporations on a wide range of disputes, including class actions, involving corporate, commercial, banking, and financial matters, as well as bankruptcy and antitrust issues. Francesca's international arbitration practice focuses especially on energy disputes, as ICC construction disputes, as well as M&A and Joint Venture disputes.

Clifford Chance

Francesca Marie Pisano

Francesca Pisano provides strategic advice to leading companies seeking merger clearance from US regulators for complex deals and defending themselves in civil and criminal antitrust investigations. Francesca draws on her experience to guide clients in strategic mergers and transactions before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice (DOJ), including defending clients facing merger litigation. She also represents companies in government conduct and internal investigations, as well as providing business-centric, sophisticated compliance counseling. She advises a broad spectrum of companies across highly regulated industries, including telecommunications and technology, entertainment, government contracting, and healthcare. An active member of the antitrust bar, she serves as the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s Transportation and Energy Industries Committee. Before joining Latham, Francesca was a senior associate at a global law firm in Washington, D.C., where she focused on antitrust matters.

Latham & Watkins

Francesco Carloni

Francesco Carloni is a partner in the firm's Antitrust, Competition, and Trade Regulation practice group. He is the managing partner of the firm’s Brussels office and partner of the Milan office. Francesco has extensive experience in notifying mergers and joint ventures with the European Commission and national competition authorities in Europe, coordinating the notification of international transactions globally, and advising on all aspects of antitrust law, including vertical agreements, anti-cartel enforcement, collaborative arrangements, unilateral conduct, e-commerce, EU sector inquiries, public consultations, and state aid. He has been involved in some of the most high-profile and complex merger control cases, including in-depth (Phase 2) investigations and remedies. He offers compliance training and develops customized compliance programs adapted to clients' specific risk profiles. He has extensive experience in the fashion and luxury sector where he represents a number of the most iconic brands globally. He advises leading corporations in a variety of sectors including fashion and luxury, pharmaceutical, IT, digital maps, telecommunications, aviation, chemicals, liner shipping, food, dairy and automotive industries. A New York and Italian-qualified lawyer, Francesco graduated from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and received two LLMs from the College of Europe, Bruges, and Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is also the author of several articles on antitrust law–most recently, he was the author of the third antitrust survey on the luxury and fashion sectors, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2024) and the EU merger control chapter of the Merger Thresholds Monitor in Kluwer Competition Law (Wolters Kluwer) (2025) –and often participates as a speaker at conferences and seminars on European and Italian competition law.

K&L Gates GP