Edward G Biester

Edward G. Biester III is a member of Duane Morris' Trial Practice Group. He represents clients in litigation, transactions and counseling on compliance with antitrust and competition laws, providing advice to manufacturers, distributors and service providers on distribution issues, and antitrust aspects of joint ventures, competitor collaboration and transactions, including Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice merger investigations and compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. His litigation and arbitration experience includes antitrust, commercial, banking and insurance, corporate and securities, class action and intellectual property matters. He has also assisted clients in connection with FDIC receiverships, including banks purchasing and assuming assets and liabilities of failed banks, and has represented insurance guaranty associations in connection with insurance insolvency matters and related issues.

Duane Morris LLP: Partner, 1994-present, Associate, 1986-1993; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: Judicial Clerk, Honorable Donald W. VanArtsdalen, 1984-1986

Commerce Program Judge Pro Tempore, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, 2000-present; American Bar Association (ABA) Antitrust Law Section; Philadelphia Bar Association; Law360 Editorial Advisory Board