Joshua Soven

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Based in Paul Hastings' Washington, D.C. office, Joshua Soven is a leading antitrust lawyer who represents companies in high-stakes strategic mergers and acquisitions, antitrust litigation and counseling on competition issues. He represents a wide range of leading companies before the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission, and in the federal courts.

His antitrust experience ranges from high-profile, complex strategic transactions to M&A litigation and defense of clients facing complex multidistrict litigations and class actions.

Josh previously served in leadership and trial counsel roles in both the DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He was the chief of the Litigation I Section of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division (now the Healthcare and Consumer Products Section), where he directed all the division’s investigations and litigation challenges in the health insurance, hospital, consumer products, packaging, beer and dairy sectors. In addition, he served as a trial attorney in the division’s Networks and Technologies Section, where he directed investigations in the software, electronic payment systems and financial services fields. Josh was also an attorney advisor to FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras.

He has led the antitrust teams that obtained government approval for numerous prominent companies in a variety of industries, including in the technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, industrials, hospitality, consumer services and entertainment industries.

Josh is currently an editor of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Magazine. He has spoken at many conferences on antitrust enforcement issues and served as a lecturer at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he co-taught a course on strategy and competition policy in the healthcare sector.

Josh clerked for the Honorable Robert G. Doumar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.

University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (summa cum laude)