Wendy Waszmer
USA Guide 2023
Band 3 : Antitrust
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Wendy Huang Waszmer is a litigation partner in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the antitrust practice and currently serves on the firm’s board of directors. She represents and defends public and private companies and individual clients in high-stakes government investigations and federal court litigation.
Wendy has in-depth criminal and civil experience in a range of industries, including tech platforms, life sciences, financial services, and energy generation. She previously served in several leadership and trial counsel roles for the Department of Justice (DOJ) in New York and Washington, D.C. She has been a first-chair trial counsel in all phases of federal court litigation, including jury and bench trials. As the Assistant Chief of the New York field office of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Wendy supervised federal trials and criminal and civil investigations. She also was a liaison with federal agencies and State Attorneys General in joint and parallel antitrust and fraud investigations. In addition, she previously served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, advising on enforcement policy matters.
Earlier in her career, Wendy served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where she appeared as lead counsel in trials and hearings in more than 50 federal district court cases and numerous appeals, as well as in False Claims Act and other investigations. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Richard J. Leon, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.