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Antitrust - New York

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What the Team is Known For

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP adeptly handles regulatory and M&A antitrust concerns for a roster of premium clients. The team acts at the forefront of litigation, including monopolization allegations and wide-scale class actions, with notable clients coming from the pharmaceutical and financial industries. Paul, Weiss regularly represents clients in high-stakes DOJ and FTC antitrust investigations.

Work Highlights

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison represented IBM in its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp, a multi-cloud infrastructure automation company.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Katherine B Forrest
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Katherine B Forrest
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Eminent Practitioners
Former District Court judge Katherine Forrest is a renowned antitrust attorney who has market-leading expertise in litigation. In addition to her role as a judge, her clients benefit from her long career in the DOJ and two prior decades of private practice as a litigator.

Katherine has a fantastic intellect. She's savvy, industrious and entrepreneurial.

Aidan Synnott
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Aidan Synnott
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Aidan Synnott is held in particularly high esteem for his expertise in antitrust litigation, drawing from a wealth of expertise in trial matters. He also advises clients on merger clearance and investigations.

Aidan is exceptionally capable, effective and efficient. A lawyer's lawyer who is the first call for anything important, complex and sensitive.

Aidan delivers tailored, practical advice.

William Michael
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William Michael
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William Michael is a litigator with notable expertise in antitrust individual and class actions. He regularly appears before the competition agencies in significant investigations.

He is an absolute star and one of the up-and-coming trial lawyers. He is enormously skilled and can do it all. He is really good at technical things and can do complex antitrust trials.

A very disciplined and a strong advocate.

He has a great ability to explain complex antitrust topics in a way that is persuasive to audiences.

Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel
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Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel
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Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel is well-regarded for her handling of DOJ investigations on behalf of clients in technology and consumer goods industries. Clients benefit from her previous experience in the DOJ antitrust division.

Tee is incredibly gifted and understands the criminal side of work.

She is extraordinarily competent, practical and has on her feet experience at trial.

She is really good, smart and energetic.

Peter McCormack
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Peter McCormack
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Band 5

Peter McCormack is routinely called upon to represent clients in a broad range of antitrust work, covering litigation, transactions and antitrust counselling. He is particularly adept at providing antitrust advice to private equity firms.

Peter is super commercial. He issue-spots in an M&A context and gives a gut check of how big an issue something might be.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Antitrust

Katherine B Forrest
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Katherine B Forrest
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Eminent Practitioners
Aidan Synnott
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Aidan Synnott
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Band 2
William Michael
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William Michael
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Band 4
Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel
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Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel
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Band 5
Peter McCormack
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Peter McCormack
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Band 5