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Antitrust

District of Columbia

23 Years Ranked

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Provided by George S Cary

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George S. Cary is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb. He has decades of experience in sophisticated antitrust matters, representing companies on industry-transforming transactions and complex monopolization litigation. George was lead global counsel for Broadcom in its $91 billion acquisition of VMware, the largest technology transaction of all time. George was lead trial counsel for T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in the federal court trial brought by a coalition of state attorneys general challenging the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, which resulted in a combined company with an enterprise value of $146 billion. Other merger highlights include: Dow Chemical in its $130 billion merger of equals with DuPont, 21st Century Fox in its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company for $71.3 billion, and GlaxoSmithKline in its multibillion-dollar, three-part transaction with Novartis. His precedent-setting litigation wins include representing Sanofi in defeating a multibillion-dollar monopolization case challenging loyalty discounts, and Broadcom in its appellate victory against Qualcomm.

Before joining Cleary, George served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he oversaw a record number of merger transactions.

Career

Deputy Director, Bureau of Competition, FTC (1995-98). Irell and Manella (1984-95). Trial Attorney, FTC Bureau of Competition (1976-84). JD, University of California, Berkeley (1976). BA, University of California, Santa Cruz, Economics (1973).

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California and DC Bars.

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George Cary is a preeminent antitrust lawyer esteemed for his work securing clearance for the largest of corporate transactions. He also handles high-stakes litigation defense work for household-name clients.

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