Ashley Bauer > Latham & Watkins LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile

With a strong presence on both coasts, Latham & Watkins LLP has a market-leading cartel defense practice that runs the gamut of civil and criminal litigation, government investigations, and follow-on enforcement proceedings. Its client roster includes corporates and individuals from a diverse range of industries, including automotive manufacturing, food production and processing, and retail. The firm also benefits from its significant agency expertise and deep governmental relationships, with several of the team’s members having extensive former experience from the DOJ and the FTC. Notably, April 2022 saw Makan Delrahim, former Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Antitrust Division, joining the firm’s Washington DC office. Also in DC is practice co-head Amanda Reeves, while New York’s Elizabeth Prewitt, a seasoned cartel defense litigator known in particular for her work on financial services cartel investigations, rounds out the firm’s East Coast team. On the West Coast, practice co-head Belinda Lee, based in San Francisco, represents multinationals in civil and criminal cartel litigation before global regulators and courts. Other key names from the San Francisco office include Niall Lynch, a recognized antitrust litigator with significant experience from the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, as well as Ashley Bauer, whose practice focuses on regulatory investigations and follow-on litigation.