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Akin Offices
Robert S. Strauss Tower
2001 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-1037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Corey Roush
Work Department
Partner; Disputes & Investigations
Position
Corey Roush leads the firm’s antitrust/competition practice and heads its Federal Trade Commission (FTC)-facing consumer protection practice. He represents clients in federal antitrust and consumer protection investigations and litigation. He has specific expertise guiding clients through the merger review process before the FTC, DOJ and various attorneys general around the country. He is one of only a handful of antitrust lawyers to litigate against both the FTC and DOJ to preserve proposed and consummated mergers. He also regularly serves as lead counsel in multi-defendant class and non-class action matters and has experience in various industries, including healthcare, technology, energy, chemicals, fuel, advertising, and retail products.
To learn more about Corey, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/corey-w-roush.html
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar Association; Antitrust Section, ABA
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (1997, cum laude); Vanderbilt University (1994, magna cum laude)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Merger control
(Leading lawyers)The ‘exceptionally experienced’ team at Akin, lauded for its ‘breadth of knowledge’, has a successful track record in high-value, strategic merger clearances, focusing on market-defining transactions for a range of clients facing regulatory scrutiny by US and international agencies. The practice is well-placed to secure multi-jurisdictional clearance for transactions in concert with foreign counsel and the firm’s global offices, particularly London. Practice head Corey Roush regularly represents clients before the FTC, DOJ and state attorneys general on contentious merger-related investigations and litigation. Gorav Jindal is a vastly skilled figure, overseeing all phases of merger investigations conducted by the DOJ and FTC, while Brian Rafkin advises clients spanning the healthcare, chemicals, tech and semiconductors sectors. Attorneys are based in Washington DC.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism