Elai Katz

Practice Areas

Elai Katz is a strategic antitrust lawyer with over two decades of experience handling mergers and acquisitions, litigation, counseling and government investigations. He represents buyers and sellers across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications, online retail, beverage and airline. Clients value Elai’s ability to provide concise and pragmatic advice, explaining complex issues in simple terms. They turn to him for a practical, creative and informed lens on their antitrust matters.

Elai successfully guides his clients’ transactions through antitrust and foreign investment regulatory reviews in the United States and internationally. His efficient approach has garnered a strong record of obtaining quick and positive resolutions during the early phases of merger reviews. Elai is particularly attuned to global antitrust trends, and he uses such insights to the benefit of his clients when negotiating and completing mergers and acquisitions.

In addition to his transactional work, Elai represents clients in a variety of antitrust disputes, including complex class actions alleging price fixing and monopolization, as well as matters involving distribution arrangements and price discrimination. He also regularly advises on joint ventures and trade associations, as well as marketing, pricing and distribution strategies.

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Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Antitrust Section, vice chair of the International Comments and Policy Committee

Yale Library Associates, trustee

Yale University Library Council, member

New York State Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section, former chair of the Executive Committee

Publications

Well regarded as a thought leader on antitrust trends, Elai writes an antitrust column in The New York Law Journal, edited The Antitrust Compliance Handbook and has written chapters in Antitrust Law Developments and New York Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law. He is a regular panelist and moderator at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting, as well as the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section Spring Meeting, where he covers timely topics such as merger enforcement, information exchange and financial market manipulation.