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Margaret A Ward

Margaret A Ward

USA 2026

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Career

Peggy Ward has more than 20 years’ experience practicing antitrust law, with special focus on mergers and acquisitions, counseling, compliance programs, and nonmerger government investigations. She has represented clients before the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, and has experience in a wide range of industries, including health care, IT hardware, software, financial payments, life sciences, energy, and telecommunications. Peggy serves as a Nongovernmental Advisor to the International Competition Network. She is currently co-chair of the Compliance and Ethics Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law.

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Antitrust - California

Band 5
Band 5

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Margaret Ward acts for clients in merger clearance proceedings, regularly presenting before government competition agencies. She also handles antitrust compliance counseling and conducts investigations. Her clients are drawn from the IT, finance and healthcare industries.

Strengths

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  • Margaret is savvy, observant and picks up a lot of subtlety quickly.

    AntitrustChambers Guide to the USA
  • Margaret is a good issue-spotter and she has got a business-savvy approach.

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