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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Offices

1050 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON DC 20036-5306
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Joshua Lipton

Work Department
Antitrust and Competition.
Position
Josh maintains a broad-based antitrust and consumer protection practice, including litigation, merger and acquisition investigations, civil and criminal investigations by government authorities, and antitrust counseling. His representative matters include defending AT&T against DOJ’s challenge to AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner, defending Smithfield Foods in class action antitrust litigation, representing Marriott in securing global antitrust clearance in its $13.8 billion acquisition of Starwood, and authoring the briefs to the Supreme Court in the landmark Leegin case.
Career
For more information, please visit https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/lipton-joshua/.
Education
JD, magna cum laude, first in his class, University of Michigan School of Law, 1998; member of the Michigan Law Review.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher boasts a leading antitrust practice with expertise in private competition litigation, appeals, and class actions. The team also advises on investigations and is pivotal in facilitating its clients’ key transactions. Its enviable client roster includes blue-chip companies from the pharma, real estate, sports, TMT, and food and beverage sectors. Rachel Brass and Stephen Weissman co-chair the practice from San Francisco and Washington DC respectively. Brass has extensive experience in high-stakes competition litigation across all levels of the US justice system. Weissman is a distinguished advocate for domestic and international companies facing antitrust litigation brought by the FTC and DOJ. Operating out of Los Angeles, Daniel G. Swanson is a skilled trial and appellate lawyer with expertise in monopolization, abuse of dominance, and price-fixing cases. In Washington, DC, co-chair Cynthia Richman bolsters the team with her deep knowledge of cartel investigations and class action matters. Also in DC, Joshua Lipton manages antitrust and consumer protection litigations in state and federal courts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government contracts
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Fintech