Andy Ewalt > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Offices
700 13TH STREET NW
10TH FLOOR
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Andy Ewalt
Work Department
Antitrust, Competition, and Trade
Position
Partner
Career
Andy focuses on US antitrust litigation and investigations, including both civil and criminal matters.
Before joining Freshfields, Andy served for more than a decade at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, gaining significant experience investigating and litigating civil and criminal antitrust matters involving a wide variety of industries. As counsel to the Director of Litigation from 2016 to 2018, he worked closely with DOJ leadership in supervising the Division’s civil litigation program during a period of unparalleled activity and success.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP offers clients ‘significant geographic reach and a diverse team of highly competent attorneys’ with recent work involving claims in the tech and consumers products sectors, for a growing client base consisting of global industry leaders such as Google and MIT. Practice head Eric Mahr has considerable experience in defending clients in civil and criminal investigations, enforcement actions and regulatory proceedings in the US and in Europe, and is currently acting as lead counsel defending Google in a multidistrict litigation. Julie Elmer is an active trial lawyer, representing the likes of United Airlines while Andy Ewalt has previously litigated as counsel to the Director of Litigation at the antitrust division of the DOJ and recently led the team which won the dismissal of antitrust claims concerning an open bidding agreement between Google and Apple. All the attorneys listed are based in Washington DC. Jamillia Ferris joined the firm in September 2022 from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Richard Snyder left the firm in January 2023.
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- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Financial products
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation