Ms Elizabeth Prewitt > Latham & Watkins LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ms Elizabeth Prewitt

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Work Department

Global Antitrust & Competition

Position

Partner

Career

Elizabeth Prewitt, a leading first-chair trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor, defends multinational companies and executives facing high-stakes government antitrust investigations and litigation.

Ms. Prewitt has a formidable track record of success leading her clients through government antitrust investigations, managing bet-the-company litigation, and leading the defense in the courtroom. She leverages her insight into the approaches of antitrust and competition enforcers globally to guide clients through:

• Complex civil investigations initiated by the US DOJ and FTC, and state and foreign competition enforcement agencies
• Civil and criminal litigation
• Complex and cross-border cartel investigations

Before entering private practice, Ms. Prewitt spent 16 years as a trial lawyer in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). She also served as Assistant Chief of the Antitrust Division in the New York office from 2012 to 2014. She was designated as a Visiting International Enforcer to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition in Brussels. Her work on both sides of the Atlantic uniquely positions her to navigate matters with multinational components and parallel investigations conducted by antitrust enforcers and regulators globally.

A two-time recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the Assistant Attorney General’s Award, Ms. Prewitt led the DOJ’s criminal antitrust cartel investigations into some of its largest investigations at the time, including into Libor and Forex rate-rigging alongside parallel inquiries by global competition and fraud enforcers.

Ms. Prewitt is internationally recognized as a preeminent competition and trial lawyer by leading publications, including Global Competition Review, Expert Guides: Business Law and Competition, Who’s Who Legal: Competition, Lawdragon, The Legal 500, and Chambers USA.

In recognition of her exceptional experience and reputation globally, she has been selected to serve in senior leadership positions in the International, American and New York State Bar Associations. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the David E. Rockefeller Foundation.

Languages

English

Education

• JD, Loyola Law School, 1998
  cum laude
• BA, Brown University, 1992