Antitrust lawyers

Prudence Smith

Prudence Smith's practice is focused on competition, consumer and regulatory law. Drawing on many years at the Australian competition and consumer law regulator, she is able to help clients achieve favorable outcomes. She advises and represents clients in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore (with locally registered Jones Day lawyers), and throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on a broad range of competition law issues, including cartel and anticompetitive conduct investigations, authorizations, and notifications, as well regulatory issues including Spam Act and AML compliance. She also regularly advises on significant and complex merger clearances and joint ventures, including many cross-border transactions. She has in-depth experience in complex competition and consumer litigation and is regularly sought out by clients that are facing significant and complex regulatory and private litigation issues involving competition law (such as private actions for anticompetitive conduct, including refusal to deal or misuse of market power) or misleading and deceptive conduct representations. Prudence is also often called on by clients who have received a statutory notices for the production of evidence or who are the subject of a search warrant.

Jones Day

Puja Patel

Partner

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Qiang Xue

Jones Day

Rachael Lewis Anna

Rachael Lewis Anna (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM) is a Member of Wyche’s Litigation Team. Her practice focuses on complex business litigation and data protection. She has represented clients in antitrust, trade secret, unfair trade practice, False Claims Act, healthcare, contractual, and professional malpractice disputes. Through her work on bet-the-company cases, and also directing an electronic discovery and information security service business, Rachael has developed a deep understanding of complicated issues facing clients who manage large amounts of data. She regularly advises clients regarding data protection, privacy, information management and security, electronically stored information, and discovery matters. She works with clients and other outside counsel to coordinate discovery across litigation matters and provide consistent, defensible strategies for managing information subject to discovery. She has extensive experience with investigations and litigation that involve forensic examination of electronically stored information. Rachael is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (United States and Europe), a Certified Information Privacy Manager, and a member of The Sedona Conference’s Data Security and Privacy Liability Working Group 11. Rachael’s past cases include class actions and governmental investigations involving numerous industries, from automotive parts and memory chips to hospitals and employee wages. She has defended clients against antitrust claims and in government investigations led by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state authorities. Rachael advises clients on how to mitigate antitrust risk and on whether transactions will raise issues with federal and state antitrust enforcers. Prior to joining Wyche, Rachael practiced with firms in Greenville, SC, Washington, DC, and Chicago, IL. Rachael earned a Bachelor of Arts and a law degree from Wake Forest University. She is based in Wyche’s Greenville office.

Wyche P.A.

Rachel Adcox

Principal

Adcox Strategies

Rachel Brass

Rachel Brass’s practice covers domestic and international competition matters, class actions and appeals. She has significant experience in international cartel matters, mergers and acquisitions, grand jury investigations and other global antitrust investigations and litigation. She represents clients across industries, including technology, auto parts, franchising, package delivery, transportation, medical, agriculture, and retail.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Rachel Renee Blitzer

Rachel Blitzer is an experienced intellectual property litigator who represents clients in technically complex cases relating to trade secrets, patent infringement, copyright, breach of contract, business torts, and antitrust. Rachel's litigation experience spans a broad range of technologies, including: Software, VR, and gaming applications Aerospace technologies Industrial machinery Financial products Medical devices Pharmaceuticals Chemical products Rachel draws on her extensive trial experience and technical facility to advance her clients’ interests in their most critical matters. Her practice includes consulting clients at all stages (from start-up to Fortune 500 companies) on sound IP strategy in order to best position them for monetization, asserting or defending future litigation, and compliance with their management and financial reporting duties. Rachel's litigation practice is complemented by her robust experience with IP licensing and diligence matters, including patent portfolio analyses, freedom-to-operate opinions, and contract drafting. In addition to her work in federal district and appellate courts, Rachel practices in state courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission, and is admitted to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office. Additionally, Rachel maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes political asylum petitions, immigration appeals, Violence Against Women Act self-petitions, unemployment insurance representations, will drafting and end-of-life planning, patent prosecution and counseling for small entities, and case reviews for The Innocence Project. She has also served on the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing.

Latham & Watkins

Rachel Williams

Associate

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Rahul Goel

Partner

AnantLaw

Rakesh Kilaru

Wilkinson Stekloff

Ralia Polechronis

Wilkinson Stekloff

Randall Thomsen

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Rani Habash

Partner

Dechert

Raquel Fernández Menéndez

Senior Associate

Hogan Lovells Spain

Raymond Jacobsen

Raymond (Ray) A. Jacobsen, Jr., advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and complex antitrust litigation. He has significant experience in the defense, medical devices, biotech, consumer product, energy and health care industries. Ray is the global head of McDermott’s Antitrust Practice and serves on the Management Committee. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/jacobsen-raymond-a/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Rebecca Nelson

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Rebecca Schindel

Rebecca J. Schindel focuses her practice on complex litigation, particularly in the areas of antitrust, securities and general commercial disputes.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Renata Zuccolo

Partner

Mattos Filho

René Alva

Partner

EC Rubio

Reut Matok-Rahman

Partner

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Rezart Spahia

Founder, Managing Partner

Frost & Fire Consulting

Ricardo Alberto Arias Arias

Partner. Mr. Arias Arias is an expert on Administrative, International and Commercial Law with emphasis on Banking and Corporate Law.

Galindo, Arias & López

Ricardo Moreno

Ricardo is a partner in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Department of the firm and co-leads the Tax Department. Ricardo represents and advises both local and international clients on a wide range of matters. These include merger and acquisition transactions, corporate and commercial law, as well as antitrust and consumer protection matters. While working as a full-time legal assistant at Alfaro Ferrer & Ramirez, Ricardo attended Santa María la Antigua University, where he graduated with honors (cum laude) in 2007. Subsequently, he pursued further studies at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with a concentration in Securities and Financial Regulation in 2008. After completing his LL.M., Ricardo worked at Fox Horan & Camerini in New York. There, he handled corporate and commercial transactions, supporting clients interested in Latin American business ventures. In 2009, he joined Alfaro Ferrer & Ramirez as an associate attorney and was promoted to partner in 2018.

Alfaro, Ferrer & Ramírez

Ricardo Pfaff

Lawyer

Claro & Cia.