Kenneth B. Schwartz

Practice Areas

Ken Schwartz represents clients in antitrust transactional and advisory matters. He has worked in a diverse range of industries, including agriculture, airlines, chemicals, consumer products, defense and government contracting, energy, entertainment, financial services, fintech, health care, insurance, media, medical devices, natural resources, private equity, pharmaceuticals, retail and telecommunications.

Mr. Schwartz routinely appears before the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and state antitrust authorities. He regularly appears before the antitrust agencies in a variety of investigational contexts. In the area of general antitrust counseling, Mr. Schwartz advises clients on a variety of antitrust matters, including joint ventures, competitor collaborations, unilateral conduct, and pricing and distribution issues. He also frequently works with Skadden’s Financial Institutions Group on antitrust issues that arise in insurance M&A and regulatory matters

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association

Publications

Mr. Schwartz is a regular columnist for the New York Law Journal. He also co-authored “Private Litigation and Government Rhetoric Signal Increased Legal Headaches Under the Robinson-Patman Act,” which was recognized as Best Business Article (Private Enforcement) at Concurrences’ 2025 Antitrust Writing Awards, and, in 2024, he won Concurrences’ Best Business Article (General Economics) for “Private Equity and Competition — Comparing U.S. Agency Views to Recent Policy and Empirical Evidence,” co-authored with Michael Singer and Isabel Tecu. In 2012, he won the Institute of Competition Law’s Antitrust Academic Article Readers Award for “‘Tally Ho!’: UPP and the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines,” co-authored with James Keyte.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Personal

Mr. Schwartz has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and named to The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, he has been honored as one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America and 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers.

Education