Sharis Pozen

Practice Areas

Sharis Pozen is the Regional Managing Partner, Americas, Chair Emeritus of the Global Antitrust Group, and a member of the firm's global Executive Leadership Group. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice. Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at General Electric (GE), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C.

She advises clients on a broad spectrum of antitrust issues related to mergers and acquisitions, litigation, criminal investigations, counseling and compliance across national and multinational industries, including technology and telecommunications, health care and life science, energy, financial services, transportation, agriculture, and consumer products.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Sharis was the Vice President of Global Competition Law and Policy at GE, where she was responsible for antitrust merger clearance on numerous significant, transformational mergers and acquisitions, steering global antitrust investigations to positive conclusions, antitrust compliance and other related issues.

While leading the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, Sharis led the successful efforts in blocking AT&T’s proposed US$39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, initiated the eBooks case against Apple and five publishers and oversaw the Department's successful investigation and prosecution of auto parts cartels, the largest criminal matter in the division’s history. She also represented the U.S. on competition issues before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Competition Network.

Career

Connecticut College (B.A.) 1986

Washington University, St. Louis (J.D.) 1989

Admitted as an attorney-at-law in Missouri 1989

Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the District of Columbia 1995

Joined Clifford Chance as a Partner May 2019

Professional Memberships

Women's Connection Committee, ABA Antitrust Law Section; Chair, Board of Directors – National Partnership for Women and Families; Member of the Board of Trustees – Connecticut College; Member of the Advisory Board of Directors – D.C. Volunteer Lawyers Project; Spring Meeting Co-Chair, 2014-2017 – American Bar Association Antitrust Section; Member of the International Bar Association