Brent Justus

Practice Areas

Brent Justus operates a broad antitrust practice, with a particular focus on cartel defense, litigation, and merger clearances. He is co-leader of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group, has served as the co-chair of both the Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee and the Trial Practice Committee of the ABA’s Antitrust Section, and currently serves as the co-chair of the Committee Operations Committee. He is also an editor of the three-volume State Antitrust Practice and Statutes (Fifth) published by the ABA Antitrust Section and is a past chair of the Antitrust Section of the Virginia State Bar.

Litigation: Brent litigates matters in federal courts throughout the United States and has handled cases under virtually every aspect of the antitrust laws including monopolization, price fixing, market allocation, bid-rigging, no-poach, boycotts, and price discrimination, as well as a number of state antitrust and unfair competition statutes.

Cartel Investigations: Brent has successfully represented both corporate clients and individuals located throughout the world in connection with global criminal antitrust cartel investigations. His practice has included representation of clients before the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, the Canadian Competition Bureau, and the European Commission Directorate General for Competition.

Merger Control: Brent has worked extensively on merger investigations involving both domestic and European companies and coordinates the preparation of both Hart-Scott-Rodino and international premerger clearance filings.

Brent is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and for multiple years has been selected by Global Competition Review for inclusion in International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers. He also has been recognized in Nationwide: Antitrust: Cartel by Chambers USA. Brent was also honored six times as a Rising Star in Virginia for antitrust litigation by Super Lawyers.