Eric Mahr > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
700 13TH STREET NW
10TH FLOOR
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Work Department

Antitrust, Competition, and Trade

Position

Partner and global co-head of antitrust litigation

Career

Eric is an antitrust and litigation partner in our Washington, DC office, and co-chair of the firm’s global antitrust litigation group.

Eric specializes in US antitrust litigation. For the past 20 years, he has represented clients in complex, high-stakes cases at trial and on appeal in federal district and appellate courts throughout the United States. He has defended clients in civil and criminal investigations, enforcement actions, and other regulatory proceedings both in the United States – before the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission – and in Europe, before the European Commission and numerous national competition authorities.

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.