Antitrust lawyers

Alejandro Guerrero

Alejandro is a partner and co-head of our EU Competition Law and Tech Regulation practice based in Brussels and in Madrid. He currently specialises in antitrust and commercial regulation, compliance and investigations, as well as in related disputes and litigation, in a variety of sectors including TMT, energy, consumer products and e-commerce. Specifically, Alejandro advises clients on the interplay between competition law and the GDPR, cybersecurity, and other related aspects of EU tech and platform regulations. Throughout his career, he has had first-hand and material involvement in important competition matters in the TMT sector, including two of the four Google EU investigations since 2010, and two four-to-three mergers in the telecoms sector (WIND/Hutchison/JV and Telefónica Deutschland/E-Plus). He has developed his expertise on competition and data privacy law and policy, being CIPP/E certified under the IAPP and having advised and represented international corporations on numerous on EU privacy and data protection compliance matters, both at national level and from a U.S.-EU standpoint. Today, he also advises clients on the impact on their business of future EU regulation, such as the AI Act, the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. Alejandro originally trained at the energy merger unit of the European Commission. He has represented and acted for clients in numerous mergers across a variety of sectors. Over the years, he has also represented and advised clients in numerous antitrust and cartel investigations, including successfully applying for immunity and leniency for a major financial institution in numerous EU cartel investigations, successfully defending a financial institution from formal allegations made by the European Commission in the CDS Information Market case, successfully defending a toy manufacturer against an EU inspection, and successfully defending cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies against investigations and fining decisions from European authorities. Alejandro also advises companies on ESG regulation and on the interplay between these rules and competition law and investigations. He follows closely the enactment and application of bills and laws such as the CSRD, the CS3D and the ESG Rating Regulation, counselling clients on the adoption of compliance measures and reporting and due diligence requirements.

Simmons & Simmons

Aleksandr Livshits

Antitrust Partner. Mr. Livshits focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including complex cross-border transactions, criminal and civil antitrust litigation, and antitrust compliance counseling. He has represented a variety of clients before the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and he has extensive experience in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, aerospace, automotive, retail, media, and high technology, among others.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Alex van Weezel

Partner.

Claro & Cia.

Alexander Pencu

Partner, Commercial Litigation & Cross-Border Dispute Resolution

Meister Seelig & Schuster

Alexandra Russell

Partner

Goodwin

Alexis Gilman

As a former head of a Federal Trade Commission division, Alexis anticipates antitrust enforcement risks and equips clients with the foresight and strategy needed to navigate complex merger and non-merger (conduct) investigations and litigation, and counsels clients on antitrust compliance matters. Alexis’s understanding of agency processes stems from seven years at the FTC, where he led the Mergers IV Division, overseeing some of the agency’s most high-profile merger investigations and litigation. He draws on this government experience to guide clients through complex antitrust issues, including merger reviews and clearances, deal negotiations, HSR and foreign filings, investigations, and litigation by the FTC, DOJ, and state attorneys general, as well as compliance counseling, including guidance on information sharing and labor-related antitrust issues such as employee noncompete agreements. His insight into enforcement policies, procedures, and priorities enables him to anticipate challenges and craft effective strategies to reduce antitrust risks and maximize the chances of deal clearances and favorable resolution of investigations. Alexis has represented Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, and other organizations across a wide range of industries such as health care, retail, consumer goods, technology, financial services, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, gaming, and energy, among others. He focuses his practice on advising merging parties and third parties in merger investigations and litigation, leveraging his FTC background to deliver practical, informed counsel.

Alston & Bird LLP

Alfonso Razú

Chair of the corporate practice and Co-Chair of the M&A group. As a founding partner of the firm, he collaborates on matters with clients in Mexico City and oversees our office located in Merida, Yucatan.

Assembla

Alicia Cobb

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Alicia Rubio-Spring

Partner

Goodwin

Alina de la Luz

Alina de la Luz is an associate in the Firm's Antitrust Practice Group in Mexico. Prior to joining the Antitrust Practice Group at the Firm, she was part of the Mexican competition authority (Federal Economic Competition Commission), as part of the investigating authority. With more than 8 years of experience in economic competition, mainly in abuse of dominance and analysis of competition conditions, she has conducted investigations in several markets: financial, energy, ports, digital, telecommunications, and transportation, among others. Likewise, she was head of the economic competition subject at UNAM and has taught about competition in several forums.

Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

Allison Tierney

Staff Attorney

Pomerantz LLP

Allyson M. Maltas

Counsel

Latham & Watkins

Amanda Dollinger

Partner

Jones Day

Amanda Reeves

Mandy Reeves, recognized as one of the top antitrust lawyers in the world, is a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department. She is the Office Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office, and formerly served as Global Chair of Latham’s Band 1 Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. Mandy is a sought after global leader and strategic adviser in the antitrust bar. She routinely provides sophisticated advice to lead clients through their toughest matters, whether it involves developing a creative strategy to work constructively with global regulators to obtain regulatory approval, aggressively proceeding successfully through litigation and trial, or advising and leading the charge in defending novel monopolization claims in confidential investigations or landmark litigations. Her work cuts across all industries including high technology, life sciences, healthcare, aerospace, entertainment, sports, media, communications, agriculture, automotive, retail, and consumer products. Mandy is one of a handful of lawyers to have successfully led merger matters opposite both the DOJ Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission in recent years from signing, through the Second Request process, to closing following trial. Mandy previously served as Attorney Advisor to Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch at the Federal Trade Commission. She is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, where she previously served on the Section’s Governing Council and has chaired the Annual Law & Economics Institute for Judges, an intensive training program, which trains federal judges in antitrust law and economics. Mandy has served in multiple management roles at Latham including her previous position as Chair of Latham’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice Group and Global Chair of the firm’s Mentoring Committee. Prior to joining Latham, Mandy clerked for Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Judge John G. Heyburn II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.

Latham & Watkins

Amna Arshad

Special Counsel

Crowell & Moring LLP

Anastasios Tomtsis

Anastasios Tomtsis advises major companies from a wide range of industries on global antitrust and EU law. He has particular expertise in EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control, and in state aid control.

Clifford Chance

Andrea Cruz

Associate

Trench Rossi Watanabe

Andrea Murino

Andrea Agathoklis Murino is an antitrust and competition partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her unique combination of private and public sector experience allows her to combine a deep understanding of antitrust caselaw and current enforcement priorities to create bespoke and efficient pathways to achieving her clients’ business objectives. Her primary focus is securing clearances for proposed transactions from the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general and international competition law enforcement agencies. She has successfully represented hundreds of clients through intensive investigations, high-profile Second Requests, and federal and administrative litigation. Andrea also has a vibrant practice representing third parties in connection with agency investigations and litigation. Clients have called Andrea “super responsive, very practical and a creative problem solver” who is “a real pleasure to work with” according to Chambers USA. To The Legal 500 U.S., clients noted she is “a very strong and persuasive communicator” who can “distill down the primary advocacy arguments in a case and communicate those ideas persuasively to the antitrust agencies.”

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Andrea Presser

Partner, Banking & Finance, Corporate, Mergers & Acquistions, Employment law Andrea has 27 years of M&A experience in cross-border and domestic M&A transactions in various industries, including leasing, retail, pharma wholesale and IT. Andrea has been an active member of the Hungarian leasing association for 15 years, and as such, she participated in codification of various statutes. She is also a guest lecturer in corporate law at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd Univesrity in Budapest. She assists her clients not only in company establishments and acquisitions, but also in major restructuring deals - including the related licensing procedures in the financial sector.

CERHA HEMPEL Dezso & Partners

Andrea Schmoll

Dr. Andrea Schmoll is a partner in our IP team. She advises national and international clients on all matters of intellectual property law with a particular focus on the commercialisation of IP rights. Andrea has longstanding experience in advising and representing national and international clients on technology transfer, in particular as regards the in- and out-licensing of IP Rights as well as research and development collaborations and antitrust issues. Among her further areas of expertise are trademark and unfair competition law. A special focus of her activity is the field of employee invention law. She has extensive experience with the IP-aspects of M&A transactions.

Osborne Clarke GmbH & Co. KG

Andreas Reindl

Partner Andreas Reindl focuses on European competition law. In particular, he has significant experience advising clients in the energy, transport, pharmaceutical, high-tech and other sectors on the full range of EU competition law issues. He has worked on high profile merger investigations initiated by the European Commission and national competition authorities, including the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt). Andreas has represented several clients in abuse of dominance investigations. He also advises companies holding a dominant market position on how to avoid abusive behaviour (such as through pricing and rebate policies). Andreas has broad experience advising clients on online distribution, licensing, and other collaboration agreements. He also prepares compliance programmes and assists companies with their implementation.

Van Bael & Bellis

Andrew (Andy) Forman

Andy Forman focuses his antitrust practice on high-stakes merger clearances, civil antitrust investigations, and counseling. Andy draws on decades of experience as a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Antitrust Division (2022–2025), at the Federal Trade Commission, and over 15 years in private practice to help clients navigate a broad spectrum of competition matters, including: Mergers and acquisitions Joint ventures Conduct investigations Antitrust litigation Andy has experience across a wide range of industries, including technology, healthcare and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance and fintech, transportation, consumer products, entertainment, housing, building products, industrials, aerospace, and defense.

Latham & Watkins

Andrew Clubok

Andrew Clubok is Global Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Securities and M&A Litigation Practice. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices, he is a premier, go-to trial lawyer for complex, bet-the-company litigation. Andrew has over 30 years of experience in trial, appellate, and administrative litigation, and counseling across a wide range of areas including securities law, commercial disputes, automotive litigation, tax controversies, environmental litigation, telecommunications, restructuring, antitrust, and employment matters. Andrew has successfully represented many of the world’s leading companies including Meta, Verizon, Lyft, General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Daimler AG, American Airlines, Raytheon, Amazon, Honeywell, Pfizer, Teva, Abbott Labs, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Camping World, UBS, Chipotle, CenturyLink, X (formerly Twitter), Hershey, Navient, Fortinet, Carvana, Peloton, Adobe, and AOL. Andrew served as a law clerk for Judge Frank J. Battisti of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He is a board member for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Latham & Watkins

Andrew Finch

Andrew C. Finch is Co-Chair of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. An accomplished antitrust lawyer with extensive experience in both civil and criminal antitrust litigation and investigations, Mr. Finch previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP