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Eric Mahr
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 is well versed in handling antitrust suits brought against tech and food sector clients, while also handling investigations and merger reviews by the FTC and DOJ. Washington DC-based Eric Mahr heads the firm’s US antitrust practice and is requested by clients facing civil suits and regulatory challenges both domestically and further afield, particularly in relation to proceedings initiated by the European Commission. June 2023 saw a pair of arrivals strengthen the group, with former Winston & Strawn LLP attorney Heather Lamberg moving to the firm’s DC office and specializing in market allocation and monopolization claims, and Justina Sessions joining from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Silicon Valley, with a practice centered on antitrust cases in the tech industry.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- International trade > CFIUS
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism