Antitrust lawyers

Catherine Pawluch

Catherine Pawluch is a partner in the firm's Toronto office. She is co-head of Canada's Transportation group and a member of the Anti-trust and Competition group. Catherine represents clients in relation to supply chain and distribution law matters, including compliance with trade, import, and export controls, including international transport and third party logistics companies and Fortune 500 manufacturers, producers, and retailers. Catherine’s regulatory law practice also focuses on competition law and foreign investment law, including the national security provisions of Canada’s Investment Canada Act. She has extensive experience in pre-merger approvals and has counselled U.S., Japanese, Asian and other foreign corporations across a range of industries, including the mining, energy and LNG industries, and the aviation, transportation, manufacturing, retailing and consumer products sectors. Catherine has obtained Competition Act and Investment Canada Act clearances for numerous merger transactions. She also has experience advising foreign companies that are the subject of multinational conspiracy and bid-rigging investigations in seeking immunity and in their dealings with the Criminal Branch of the Competition Bureau and the Public prosecution Service of Canada. Following the implementation of NAFTA, Catherine was invited as an expert in the field to participate on a tri-national committee to harmonize liability laws and to create a uniform bill of lading for surface transportation in the three NAFTA countries. Catherine has written extensively on foreign ownership restriction in various industry sectors.

DLA Piper (Canada) LLP

Catie Ventura

Catie Ventura is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office whose practice focuses on antitrust and competition matters and other complex litigation. She has extensive experience in cases presenting novel questions of law and complex factual disputes. With regards to antitrust matters, Catie’s practice includes representing corporations with respect to alleged criminal and civil antitrust violations and representing clients regarding antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Many of these matters are non-public because the government-entity elected not to pursue the matter beyond the investigation stage. Catie’s complex commercial litigation practice covers business torts, mass torts and products liability matters. Catie’s experience in structuring large scale, novel settlements has led her to work with numerous companies as settlement counsel to resolve complex litigation matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Charles Rosson

Partner, Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Charles Tompkins

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Charles Whiddington

Partner - Charles Whiddington represents companies in cartel and other antitrust investigations. He also provides strategic advice on licensing, assists clients to shape their distribution networks, and provides advice and representation on the competition aspects of mergers and joint-ventures. Over the years, Charles has represented a number of clients involved in national and international cartel investigations in a range of sectors including banking, airlines, liner shipping, energy, automotive, and travel agency fees. He has also advised electricity and gas companies in the European Commission's sector inquiries, antitrust investigations concerning third party access, as well as the application of electricity and gas network codes. Charles regularly acts in the energy, transport, and life sciences sectors and has successfully represented other clients on a wide array of antitrust and competition matters.

Steptoe LLP

Charlotte Breuvart

Jones Day

Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson

Charlotte is a partner in our global antitrust and regulatory group based in Paris. She advises on all aspects of EU and French competition law – providing efficient and commercially oriented advice to support our clients’ business strategies and M&A activity. Charlotte has 15 years’ experience representing clients in antitrust and competition cases before the European Commission, the French Competition Authority and the Paris Court of Appeal. On transactions, Charlotte provides strategic advice on pivotal regulatory aspects of cross-border M&A including reviews under merger control, foreign investment and foreign subsidy rules. Her investigatory practice covers all aspects of cartel enforcement and she also regularly works with clients on their distribution arrangements and related investigations, as well as on antitrust compliance across their business operations.

Freshfields LLP

Chris Kimble

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Chris Worrall

Chris Worrall is a partner and head of the competition team at Burges Salmon. Chris has worked on numerous high profile antitrust matters and specialises in all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including antitrust investigations, cartels, abuse of market power, and merger control. Chris has extensive experience across a range of sectors, including financial services, media, transport, healthcare and retail.

Burges Salmon LLP

Christian Kemnitz

Christian Kemnitz devotes his practice to the defense of financial services firms in litigation, regulatory enforcement proceedings and internal investigations. His work frequently involves disputes over futures, options, swaps, securities and other complex financial products. In particular, he has extensive experience defending matters relating to spoofing, manipulation and other forms of disruptive trading. Chris' work on financial services litigation includes proposed class actions brought under securities laws. He also frequently represents broker-dealers in civil disputes, including arbitration claims brought by customers. In this work, Chris has a long and successful record at arbitration hearings. In the heavily regulated field of financial services, he also handles enforcement proceedings before the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), self-regulatory bodies, and at stock, option and futures exchanges. Outside of financial services, Chris has litigated employment, product liability and class action matters, as well as disputes within partnerships and closely held corporations. Clients also seek his counsel on antitrust issues, where Chris' experience includes pre-merger regulatory review, criminal investigations and class actions by direct and indirect purchasers. Chris also advises corporate and individual clients in white-collar criminal matters, including investigations initiated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the SEC and the CFTC. Often those investigations are preceded by internal investigations. Chris has run such internal investigations for manufacturing companies, investment banks, broker-dealers and hedge funds.

Katten

Christine Laciak

Special Counsel

Freshfields

Christine Levin

Dechert

Christine P. Payne

Gunster

Christine Varney

Christine A. Varney is Chair of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. Ms. Varney has been widely recognized as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in the United States in both private practice and in government service, and she is the only person to have served as both the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Ms. Varney formulates global antitrust strategy for clients in connection with joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and other business transactions, including advising on business conduct or potential investments to ensure compliance with antitrust laws, securing antitrust regulatory approvals, and handling internal or governmental investigations into anticompetitive behavior. Her clients span diverse industries, including cable, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, transportation, technology and telecommunications.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Christoph Barth

Linklaters

Christopher Curran

Partner

White & Case LLP

Christopher D. Plumlee

RMP LLP

Christopher Erickson

Associate

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Christopher G. Michel

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Christopher Holding

Partner

Goodwin

Christopher Ondeck

Chris Ondeck is head of Proskauer's Washington, DC office and co-head of the Firm’s Antitrust Group. Chris is one of the most highly rated antitrust trial lawyers in the United States. In 2023, Chris won the largest antitrust jury trial of the year, and one of the largest in history, by defending Sanderson Farms as the sole non-settling defendant where the direct purchaser plaintiffs alleged $7 billion in damages. The significance of the trial victory was widely reported by Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Law360 and other publications, calling it a “blockbuster case.” Law360 noted that Chris “blasted” the plaintiffs’ assertions at trial and called it one of the biggest trial decisions of the year. Chris and his team were named Litigators of the Week by the American Lawyer. Chris is a go-to litigator for clients in high-profile antitrust matters, including litigations, government investigations, and merger reviews. Chris has extensive experience advising on the antitrust issues for the creation of multi-party collaborations in the financial sector including electronic trading platforms, exchanges and clearinghouses, as well as syndicated lending and club deals. He also has 30-years’ expertise with the Capper-Volstead Act’s application and interpretation for agricultural cooperatives and serves as outside counsel to a large number of industry groups, including trade associations and cooperatives.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Christopher Tayback

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Christopher Thomas

Partner

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Christopher Tourek

Associate

Pomerantz LLP