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Paul Jin

Position
Partner
Career
Paul Jin is a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition practice. Paul’s antitrust expertise covers a broad spectrum of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, B2B collaborations, and pricing and supply arrangements. Paul regularly serves clients by assessing transaction-related antitrust risk, negotiating terms of agreements, and determining the applicability of merger clearance filing requirements in both US and foreign jurisdictions. Paul routinely advocates on behalf of clients before the FTC, DOJ, and state regulators in connection with informal inquiries, Second Requests, third-party subpoenas, and conduct investigations. He also provides antitrust counseling on issues such as diligence and pre-closing conduct procedures, internal compliance programs, hiring and non-compete agreements, vendor agreements, interlocking directorates, and competitor collaboration guidelines. He has extensive knowledge of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) regime and has filed hundreds of notification forms with the FTC and DOJ for mergers, minority investments, asset acquisitions, and corrective fillings.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2018, Paul was a partner in the antitrust practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and previously practiced at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
Education
JD, 2003, Northwestern University School of Law / BA, Economics, 2000, Duke University
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Merger control
Praised for its ability to provide ‘timely and clear advice under complex circumstances’, the Goodwin antitrust and competition team leverages the firm’s M&A market strength to support clients with HSR filings and sophisticated antitrust challenges. Private equity, technology, and life sciences transactions are particular areas of focus for the team, which has growing expertise regarding AI technologies. Antitrust co-head Andrew Lacy advises clients on transaction-related antitrust risk, working alongside co-chair Arman Oruc whose combined experience in merger clearance and antitrust litigation is notable. Paul Jin and Simone Waterbury together lead the merger control practice, Jin a particular go-to for private equity clients while Waterbury, in Boston, regularly handles cross-border deals. The team was bolstered in July 2024 by the addition of David Cross and Mary Kaiser, both from Morrison Foerster. All Attorneys are based in Washington DC unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation