Antitrust lawyers

Ricardo Pons

Partner

Hogan Lovells

Riccardo Pennisi

Riccardo has solid experience in the various facets of competition law and has assisted Italian and international clients in proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority concerning violation of Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. He has supervised the various phases of proceedings before the Lazio Regional Administrative Court and the Council of State, as well as civil litigation concerning antitrust damages. He has been part of defence council in proceedings concerning violation of Article 101 and initiated by the European Commission, and in the subsequent stages before the EU courts. He has also assisted in assessing numerous mergers and managing multi-jurisdictional notifications. Riccardo’s work has also included assisting in proceedings involving state aid and abuse of economic dependence and unfair business practices, as well as in internal audits and preparation of antitrust compliance courses. Riccardo is also experienced in assessing and tailoring distribution agreements. Riccardo teaches competition law for various master’s courses and is one of the founders of the association Concorrenze.

Simmons & Simmons

Richard Albert

Richard F. Albert represents clients in white collar criminal and regulatory matters, and in civil litigation. His cases have included a wide range of allegations of securities fraud, including claims of market manipulation, insider trading, and accounting violations, as well as alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, healthcare fraud, money laundering, antitrust violations, tax fraud, and obstruction of justice. He also has conducted internal investigations and represented public companies, banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, and their officers and employees in complex civil litigation and arbitration.

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C.

Richard Blewett

Richard Blewett is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Antitrust Practice in Brussels. He recently relocated from Asia where he was head of the China Antitrust Practice. Richard has a wide range of experience on international merger and antitrust work and has key clients across a number of sectors including TMT, energy, commodities, retail, financial services, and transport. His experience and knowledge spans across Asia and the EU from his time spent in Beijing, Hong Kong, London and Brussels.

Clifford Chance

Richard Cunningham

Richard H. Cunningham’s practice focuses on antitrust and consumer protection law. Rich has extensive experience securing clearance for deals from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), navigating FTC and DOJ investigations, and representing clients in government, competitor, and class action litigation involving antitrust and/or consumer protection claims. Rich began his legal career at the FTC, serving as a Staff Attorney and then as Senior Trial Counsel in the Bureau of Competition. At the FTC, Rich was a senior member of multiple litigation/trial teams, including in FTC v. OSF Healthcare System, FTC v. ProMedica, FTC v. LabCorp, and FTC v. Inova Health System, and the landmark FTC v. Whole Foods merger enforcement case. Rich also led high-profile FTC investigations that resulted in consent decrees/settlements, including DaVita/Gambro, Thermo Electron/Fisher Scientific, and Agilent/Varian. Rich received several awards during his tenure at the FTC, including the Director’s Award in 2008 and 2010 for exceptional contributions to the Bureau of Competition and the Stephen Nye Award in 2007 for outstanding performance by a junior attorney.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Richard Falek

Winston Taylor

Rob Manoso

Rob Manoso | Morrison Foerster Rob Manoso is a trial lawyer and partner in Morrison Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law Practice Group. His practice focuses on advising clients on all aspects of antitrust investigations, litigation, and compliance. Rob regularly represents clients in a wide range of antitrust matters, including criminal and civil investigations before state and federal antitrust regulators and private antitrust litigation. He also routinely provides advice on all aspects of antitrust compliance. His clients span a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, healthcare, technology and software, financial services, and government contracting. Rob has significant experience defending against novel claims in both government investigations and private litigation. This includes claims involving AI and algorithms, as Rob recently represented a large REIT in a putative class action alleging that multifamily property owners engaged in anticompetitive conduct, based on the use of a common pricing algorithm. Rob has also provided counseling to revenue management software providers and customers in various industries regarding antitrust risks associated with AI. Rob’s active pro bono practice includes criminal litigation, asylum applications, election security, and benefits appeals. Before joining MoFo, Rob worked as an associate at a large international law firm. Prior to private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk for Chief District Judge Thomas Varlan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Rob earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2012 and received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2009.

Morrison Foerster

Rob McNary

Rob McNary, a former Deputy Attorney General at the California Attorney General’s Office Antitrust Section, represents clients on high-stakes antitrust and competition law matters. Rob leverages considerable experience leading large teams and handling antitrust litigation and investigations to represent clients on matters related to federal conduct and mergers. He has particular experience with companies in the technology, airline, sports, and media industries. Rob brings an exceptional perspective to his representations, drawing on an academic background in engineering economics, and work as an analyst with the National Bureau of Economic Research and JP Morgan, prior to his private antitrust litigation practice. Rob’s experience in the California Attorney General’s Office has included several high-profile California state law investigations and litigations. He is experienced evaluating and litigating California Cartwright Act and California Unfair Competition Law Cel-Tech competition matters. Before his public service with the California Attorney General’s office, Rob was counsel at an international law firm. A significant aspect of his practice involves working with expert witnesses through discovery, motions, and trial.

Latham & Watkins

Robert A. Atkins

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert B. Bell

Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. Office

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Robert Cohn

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Robert Houck

Robert Houck represents clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation with a specific focus on cross-border matters. He has specific expertise in complex trading and markets issues. Robert has represented corporations and individuals in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, various state attorneys general and numerous non-US regulators. Robert has extensive experience representing companies, underwriters, corporate officers, and outside directors in class actions brought under the Commodity Exchange Act, the US and state antitrust laws, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Clifford Chance

Robert Keisler

Robert Keisler is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the Public Procurement Law, Competition Law and Public Law Team. His areas of expertise include advising and representing contractors and principals from a wide variety of industries, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of public procurement law and regulatory law. He also has many years of experience in various areas of competition law, including merger control and antitrust law.

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Robert Milne

Partner

White & Case LLP

Robert Ware

Rob helps clients anticipate and resolve critical supply chain and distribution problems. He frequently litigates business disputes and negotiates contractual arrangements among manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and customers. He also advises clients regarding avoidance of risk and legal compliance regarding their supply and distribution networks. Rob has 30 years of experience litigating and arbitrating contract, trade secret, unfair competition, copyright infringement, civil antitrust, false advertising and other complex business cases throughout the United States. While much of his litigation experience involves supply chain and distribution issues, he also has represented financial institutions, construction companies, nonprofits and design professionals, among other clients, in a variety of competition-related matters. Apart from litigation, Rob has assisted manufacturers and other clients regarding domestic and international product distribution and logistics arrangements, competitive issues arising from joint ventures and other collaborations, and licensing and transfers of intellectual property.

Thompson Hine LLP

Roberto Cesaro

Roberto Cesaro deals with intellectual property law, with a particular expertise in the IP field and thus in the sectors of trademarks and other distinctive signs, appellations of origin and geographical indications, patents, designs and models, unfair competition, anti-trust law and copyright. He assists clients with both judicial and extrajudicial consulting activities. In particular, he advised on litigation matters in Italy, preparing the defence of the case and arguing the cases in court, he coordinates the activity of foreign correspondents in foreign judicial proceedings, supervising the strategy and the defences, working in Italian and English. In the extrajudicial context he prepares and reviews contracts relating to the transfer and licensing of trademarks, patents, know-how, software and any other industrial and intellectual property right, as well as the drafting of opinions on the subject.

ADVANT Nctm

Roberto Quiñones

Capital Member, Litigation Practice Group. Leader, Securities Litigation & Arbitration Practice Team; Leader, Antitrust Practice Team and Co-Leader, Intellectual Property Practice Team

McConnell Valdés LLC

Robin Gibbs

Founding Partner, Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Rocio Olea

Associate

Greenberg Traurig, S.C.

Rocío Olea Salgado

Associate

Greenberg Traurig

Rodolfo Barreto

Partner

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Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés

Local Parter. Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés heads the Dispute Resolution and Antitrust practice groups of Baker McKenzie's Santiago office.

Baker McKenzie Chile

Rodrigo Montemayor Villarreal

Rodrigo Montemayor is a partner in the Corporate & Securities Practice Group in the Firm's Monterrey office. His practice areas include corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, infrastructure and real estate.

Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

Roman Dashko

Roman is a partner in the firm's Moscow Office. He advises international and domestic clients in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas, power, oilfield services, automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, technology, and real estate sectors. He has experience with structuring complex joint ventures, and with reorganizations and restructurings. He also represents issuers, lead managers, and depositaries in a range of international capital markets transactions, including IPOs. He works on antitrust, pharmaceutical, and other regulatory matters as well. For more information, view Roman's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/rdashko

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP