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Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Offices
1775 I STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20006-2401
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Robert B. Bell
Position
Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. Office
Career
Robert B. Bell is senior counsel in the Washington, DC, office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed. He is a former clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White and US District Court Judge Thomas A. Flannery. Robert has wide experience securing antitrust clearance for mergers and acquisitions from both the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and in representing companies and individuals in criminal and civil antitrust matters. He also regularly counsels clients on matters involving antitrust litigation and provides antitrust counseling on issues ranging from competitor collaborations to vertical distribution arrangements. His experience covers a wide array of industry sectors, including imaging, communications, defense, entertainment, manufacturing, mining, chemicals and transportation.
Education
Stanford Law School, J.D., 1980, Order of the Coif., Editor, Stanford Journal of International Studies
University of Cambridge, M.A., Economics, 1977
Dartmouth College, B.A., 1975, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Merger control
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP continues to handle a steady stream of merger cases before the DOJ and FTC, with a team offering agency expertise across contentious and non-contentious merger reviews, investigations, and associated litigation. William J. Kolasky , chair of the firm’s antitrust practice, handles deals in a wide range of industries, representing major clients in telecoms, private equity, and pharma. He sits in the Washington DC office, where co-head Philip Giordano is based, noted for his work on transactional matters before the FTC and DOJ. Robert B. Bell has wide-ranging experience securing merger clearance before the FTC and DOJ, as well as representing clients in criminal and civil antitrust matters. The team’s litigation capabilities have been bolstered by the arrival of Los Angles-based Yi-Chin Ho , who joined from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional