Antitrust lawyers

Scott A. Edelman

Scott A. Edelman is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Century City office. He is co-chair of its Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Litigation Department, and multiple practice groups. Scott represents major entertainment clients in sports, IP, (copyright, trademark, right of publicity, misappropriation of ideas, trade secret), profit participation, film distribution, false advertising, royalty disputes. Commercial litigation experience includes antitrust, class actions, cross-border disputes, investigations, employment, professional negligence, RICO, real estate. Representative clients: Walmart, General Electric, Nissan, CBS, NBC Universal, AMC, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, Fox Broadcasting Company, Universal Music, Discovery Communications, IMAX, Mattel. Significant first-chair trial and arbitration experience.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Scott A. Sher

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Scott Danner

Partner

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Scott Gant

Partner

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Scott Hammond

Scott Hammond is a member of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of companies subject to investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as well as experience appearing before more than two dozen competition authorities in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Scott serves as global coordinating counsel in foreign domestic as well as cross border government investigations running in parallel with US DOJ investigations.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Scott Martin

Partner and Co-Chair of US Antitrust Practice Group

Hausfeld LLP

Sean Baldwin

Partner

Selendy Gay PLLC

Sean M. Berkowitz

Sean Berkowitz, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and former Global Chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, represents clients in complex litigation and regulatory investigations. Sean is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who regularly advises Fortune 500 companies and individual executives on their most important litigation matters in courts and venues throughout the United States. He also advises clients on government and regulatory investigations, and develops strategies to resolve those matters short of litigation. He has an established track record of successfully resolving cases at trial or before trial in a variety of subject areas, including: Securities fraud Antitrust Deceptive business practices Complex commercial litigation Sean is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and has successfully tried more than 35 cases to verdict. His successful representation of Gary Winemaster, the former CEO and founder of Power Solutions International, Inc., in a criminal, four-week bench trial against the DOJ in the Northern District of Illinois in 2021 earned Sean an Impact Case Award by Benchmark Litigation. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Sean served in several federal government positions, including as: Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Section for the United States Attorney’s office in the Northern District of Illinois Director of the special task force created to investigate the Enron corporate scandal, and lead prosecutor in the criminal case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Leadership Sean recently completed a five-year term as Global Chair of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department. He is the former Illinois Chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is a past president of the Chicago Inn of Court. He serves on the boards of the Chicago Area Project and A Better Chicago, an innovative non-profit organization that invests in and supports a portfolio of educational charities.

Latham & Watkins

Sean Royall

Partner

King & Spalding

Seetha Ramachandran

Seetha Ramachandran is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and a member of the White Collar and Asset Management Litigation practices. Seetha is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer with extensive experience in civil and criminal forfeiture matters. Her practice includes white collar and regulatory enforcement defense, internal investigations and compliance counseling. A leading expert in anti-money laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act, economic sanctions and asset forfeiture matters, Seetha has deep experience representing institutions and individuals in financial penalty phase of criminal and regulatory matters. She is often retained to litigate forfeiture and restitution claims on behalf of victims and third parties in criminal cases as well as handling these issues for individual defendants. Her practice also includes general commercial litigation and trials involving antitrust, civil frauds and First Amendment/defamation claims. Seetha served as a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and later as the first chief of the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering & Bank Integrity Unit, where she led DOJ’s first wave of anti-money laundering cases against global financial institutions and oversaw all of the Criminal Division’s AML cases. During her tenure, she worked with executive leadership across agencies, including the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, state and federal banking regulators, including FinCEN, the OCC and the New York State Department of Financial Services. Her strategic approach to developing and prosecuting criminal cases under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) established the framework for AML enforcement that regulators and prosecutors follow today. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Seetha served in the Complex Frauds, Major Crimes and Asset Forfeiture units where she investigated and prosecuted white-collar cases involving a wide range of financial crimes, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, stolen art and cultural property as well as both civil and criminal forfeiture matters. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics including enforcement trends in the financial services industry, crypto, OFAC sanctions, effective AML programs and asset forfeiture. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Forum on Risk Regulation and Enforcement in FinTech for three years.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Selman Ansari

Selman Ansari is a regulatory and public policy lawyer, specialising in competition law and data protection. He relocated from London to the Middle East in 2018. He advises corporates, government departments, state owned enterprises and private equity investors on: public policy, merger control, the full spectrum of competition law issues (including abuse of dominance and distribution/vertical agreements), data protection, cybersecurity (including data localisation issues and on the implementation of global data privacy compliance programmes) and AI regulation. He has particular experience in bringing international solutions to merger control, antitrust, data protection and AI regulatory issues arising in the Middle Eastern context. He has advised on some of the largest and most complex merger control filings in the region, both local and where multiple filings are required across the globe. He regularly represents clients before the competition authorities in the region in respect of competition law enforcement. Having had an active data privacy practice in London, he has a deep understanding of data and cybersecurity regulation and is expert in the emerging AI regulatory landscape across the Middle East. Selman has particular expertise in data protection, cybersecurity and data localisation issues arising from the provision of financial services in the Middle East. Selman was previously at a magic circle firm in the Middle East and, prior to that, a partner in a leading public law firm in London.

Dentons

Semin O

DLA Piper

Seong Un Yun

Partner

Bae, Kim & Lee LLC

Sergio Ostos

Partner

Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton

Seung Soo Lee

Partner

Shin & Kim

Shaina Vinayek

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Shari Ross Lahlou

Partner

Dechert

Sharis Pozen

Sharis Pozen is a partner and is the Co-Head of the Global Antitrust Practice at Clifford Chance, based in Washington, DC. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice. Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at GE, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C. Sharis is one of the few antitrust practitioners who has served in high-level positions at both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Clifford Chance

Sharonmoyee Goswami

Sharonmoyee Goswami focuses her practice on intellectual property, antitrust and other litigation involving complex technical and scientific issues, including those surrounding artificial intelligence and emerging machine learning technologies. She represents companies and individuals in all stages of litigation, from pre‑complaint investigation through appeal, and routinely practices before the Federal Circuit and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With an “exceptional ability to parse complex legal and scientific details, translating them into arguments that resonate with judges, opposing counsel, and stakeholders alike,” Ms. Goswami draws on her extensive expertise to help companies address legal issues that arise during product development and commercialization. (The Legal 500 US)

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Shawn Ledingham

Shawn Ledingham is a steadfast advocate for his clients and his community, demonstrating unwavering commitment to every person and organization he represents. His experience spans a diverse range of entities, including publicly traded multibillion-dollar companies, leading sports leagues, preeminent law firms, universities, and individual pro bono clients. Few companies or individuals will know what it means to have their day in court, as most cases are dismissed before a jury is ever sworn in, due to judicial rulings or economic considerations. Shawn has a strong track record of securing early victories through motion practice and successfully positioning difficult cases for resolution. But when a trial becomes inevitable, Shawn’s clients rely on his thorough understanding of trial evidence, his quick adaptability to any set of facts, and his practical appreciation of what resonates with a jury. As the nature of existentially threatening litigation has shifted over the years, Shawn has consistently defended his clients against emerging threats. For example, with the recent proliferation of public antitrust enforcement and private litigation, he has represented clients in industries ranging from sports, to agriculture, to pharmaceuticals, against claims of anticompetitive conduct. Shawn has also developed substantial experience in toxic tort, product liability and environmental litigation as these cases have increasingly evolved into bet-the-company lawsuits and trials. Amidst the changing trends, one constant is the need for attorneys to advocate for the unheard voices in our communities. Shawn embodies this principle through his service on the boards of Public Counsel and the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Counsel for Justice, addressing the unmet legal needs of Los Angeles’s most vulnerable. Within Proskauer, he is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and maintains a robust pro bono practice. In furtherance of his commitment to the rule of law by an independent judiciary, Shawn is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Judicial Appointments Committee, where he evaluates nominees to fill judicial vacancies.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Shay Dvoretzky

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sheldon Zenner

Drawing on nearly 40 years of combined experience as a federal prosecutor and defense attorney, Sheldon Zenner expertly navigates his clients through high-stakes matters, including government and internal investigations, regulatory proceedings, all phases of criminal matters and related civil litigation. Sheldon's diverse client base is made up of corporations, high-ranking executives and company owners across a wide range of industries, including financial services, health care and entertainment. Importantly, his representation of clients goes beyond advising on purely legal issues; it encompasses practical business implications, operational issues, public scrutiny, reputational damage and other considerations relevant to corporate and individual clients with businesses or livelihoods on the line. The foundation of Sheldon's white-collar defense practice is the seven years he served as an assistant US attorney in Chicago, prosecuting hundreds of high-profile criminal matters and supervising the work of junior line prosecutors. Having a prosecutorial background gives Sheldon critical insights into, and the ability to anticipate, the government's strategic decision-making. It also informs Sheldon's approach as a defense lawyer. Although never anything short of zealous, he favors a search for common ground and reasonableness, whenever possible, over unproductive displays of aggression. That defense style has proven effective even when the government has opted for dramatic action. In one matter of note, 100 federal agents were deployed to execute a massive search of a client company's headquarter offices, seizing millions of dollars of products and attempting to interview executives. Sheldon immediately showed up on the scene to help control the situation, calm the employees and negotiate with the government and to address the press, which had been alerted by law enforcement to the raid. He then engaged with federal prosecutors in a year-long effort to persuade them that the company had engaged in no criminal conduct. Ultimately, after numerous meetings with the prosecutors and the submission of a lengthy legal analysis, the government was persuaded to decline any prosecution and return all of the seized products without any charges being filed. Although it is a paramount goal of any potential criminal matter to avoid prosecution, Sheldon is equally prepared to, and equally skilled at, trying cases. Among other victories, he convinced the government to abandon the first federal criminal computer-hacking prosecution after his damaging cross-examination of the government's expert at trial. Many of Sheldon’s matters involve alleged violations of antitrust, securities, tax, FCPA or anti-fraud laws. Given the international nature of his clients' businesses, his work takes him to many foreign jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Brazil and South Africa, as well as many European countries. In addition to advising on government inquiries, Sheldon also helps clients conduct internal investigations into suspected wrongdoing and respond when they have been victimized by white-collar crime. The breadth and depth of Sheldon's experience provides his clients with great assurance and comfort that they have counsel on board who can assist them to meet whatever challenges they may be facing.

Katten

Shemin Proctor

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Simon Topping

Simon specialises in Telecoms, IT, E-Commerce, Technology and Intellectual Property Law in the Middle East. He has over 20 years of legal experience, including over 10 years as a partner in UK-based international law firms (eight of these in a leading telecoms and technology firm). He advises on a broad range of regulatory, antitrust, commercial contracts, licensing, corporate and employment law issues. Simon has spent six years in the Middle East, initially as Head of Legal and Regulatory in Batelco, the Bahrain telecoms incumbent, then performing the same function in Atheeb, a new entrant in the telecoms sector in Saudi Arabia, before starting his own practice advising on telecoms and IT throughout the Middle East.

Dentons