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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins LLP is a highly respected antitrust practice with recognized strength in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. The team excels in merger clearances and cartel defense and offers particular expertise in matters involving IP issues, especially for technology companies. The antitrust group is frequently retained in large scale class actions and investigations, acting for clients such as major pharmaceutical, life science and electronic manufacturing companies. It also has noted capability handling highly complex antitrust litigation at both trial and appellate levels. Latham & Watkins offers accomplished DOJ and FTC-facing representation aided by several team members offering former governmental experience.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins LLP defended AvalonBay in class actions alleging a conspiracy to artificially increase prices for real estate leases through the software provided by RealPage.

Strengths

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The lawyers are thoughtful, creative, strategic and practical.

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Their client service is very responsive and outstanding.

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The group does an excellent job at combining litigation prowess with insider and savvy knowledge of antitrust regulatory agencies.

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The Latham team is very practical and strategic.

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The lawyers at Latham do a really nice job seeking to deeply understand the business and operations so they can build a robust defence.

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Notable Practitioners

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Alfred Pfeiffer
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Alfred Pfeiffer
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Alfred Pfeiffer leads complex antitrust trials for prominent companies in the healthcare, agricultural and telecommunications sectors.

Alfred's strength is in combining regulatory knowledge with litigation expertise.

Alfred is a well-established litigator.

Alfred is an intelligent, strategic, forward-thinking and creative attorney.

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Belinda S Lee
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Belinda S Lee
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Belinda Lee handles a broad range of antitrust work including cartel defense, private and class action litigation and agency investigations. She appears before US and international regulatory bodies.

Belinda is excellent at providing very practical advice on complex issues.

Belinda Lee is a big picture strategist.

Belinda is a very good litigator.

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Niall Lynch
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Niall Lynch
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Niall Lynch skillfully manages cartel matters including high-stakes DOJ investigations. He also leads clients through follow-on civil litigation.

Niall is really fantastic because he has a good demeanour with judges. He really understands some very complex economics and distils it to judges in oral advocacy.

Niall is excellent because he takes the time to understand the business and market we operate in.

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Christopher S Yates
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Christopher S Yates
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Christopher Yates offers leading technology and sports industry clients expert representation across a wide range of anticompetitive behavior lawsuits.

Christopher is a very good oral advocate. He is a person who is thinking about the nuanced issues presented in these cases and he has a very good business mind.

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Alfred Pfeiffer
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Alfred Pfeiffer
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Belinda S Lee
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Belinda S Lee
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Niall Lynch
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Niall Lynch
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Christopher S Yates
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Christopher S Yates
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