Lauren Rackow

Practice Areas

Lauren Rackow is a member of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. She focuses her practice on a range of antitrust matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, complex litigation, government investigations and antitrust compliance. With extensive merger control experience, Ms. Rackow advises clients on antitrust review and enforcement issues both domestically and around the globe.

Ms. Rackow routinely handles key antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions by advising on regulatory filings, including Hart‑Scott‑Rodino (HSR) filings, and merger control notification and review by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). She also guides clients through foreign investment review and has acted as antitrust counsel to the financing sources in major acquisitions featuring significant debt financings.

In addition, Ms. Rackow represents clients in critical antitrust litigation and investigations, including matters involving the FTC and the European Commission. Her clients span many industries, including healthcare, financial services and insurance, transportation, communications, and consumer products and services.