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Latham & Watkins LLP Offices
505 MONTGOMERY STREET
SUITE 2000
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111-6538
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Al Pfeiffer
Position
Alfred C. Pfeiffer, Jr. is Vice Chair of Latham’s 600-lawyer global Litigation & Trial Department and is former Co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice. He has extensive experience in civil antitrust cases, civil and criminal government antitrust investigations, and other competition-related commercial cases.
Career
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
The ‘incredibly creative and hard-working’ team at Latham & Watkins LLP excels in securing early dismissals, settlement and wins at trial concerning claims alleging anticompetitive collusion, monopolization, distribution, and pricing policies in the US and globally. In Washington DC, global chair of the practice Amanda Reeves’ work spans litigation and merger control in a range of industries including high technology, life sciences and consumer products among others. San Francisco-based Belinda Lee, global vice-chair of the practice, has extensive experience in defending global companies across the technology, manufacturing and transportation sectors in consumer class actions, unfair competition, and licensing disputes. The ‘well-prepared, consistent, detailed, and energetic’ Christopher Yates offers significant trial experience involving high profile clients, evidenced in the significant trial victory for Oracle against Hewlett Packard Enterprises in a dispute alleging unfair competition. In DC, Jennifer Giordano has expertise in defending clients in cases at both the trial and appellate level including multidistrict litigation, class actions and business-to-business litigation. Trial lawyer Al Pfeiffer leads on many matters and is noted for his experience in representing Fortune 500 companies and handling antitrust claims concerning dominant firm conduct. Aaron Chiu, who is based in the firm’s San Francisco hub, was promoted to partner in January 2022. The team has grown its capacity with the recent hires in April 2022 of former assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim in DC and Katherine Rocco, formerly at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, who joined the firm’s New York office. Daniel Wall is no longer at the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal 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
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)