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Ms Michelle Lowery
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Work Department
Antitrust/Competition
Position
Michelle Lowery has close to two decades of experience in achieving exceptional results for clients in antitrust and unfair competition litigation and investigations, including class actions. She routinely achieves victories for her clients in high-stakes cases on the papers and in the court house. She has specific experience in the healthcare, high-tech and manufacturing sectors, and specializes in litigation between competitors in these sectors. Michelle focuses her practice on helping her clients compete intensely, guiding and defending competitive strategies through and around litigation and investigations.
Michelle has been recognized by Legal 500 US, Super Lawyers and Benchmark Litigation as excelling in antitrust and unfair competition litigation, and is a member of the Firm’s antitrust and competition practice, which is designated “Global Elite” as one of the top 25 competition practices in the world by Global Competition Review.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
The ‘consistently excellent’ team at McDermott Will & Emery LLP leverages its strength across the full spectrum of antitrust issues to offer a strong litigation practice with notable strength advising on civil class actions and price-fixing allegations. Global practice co-head Raymond Jacobsen, in Washington DC, has a strong track record acting for clients in the defense industry. Katharine O’Connor, in Chicago, handles antitrust compliance and litigated merger work for clients in the healthcare, food, and manufacturing sectors; also in Chicago is Stephen Wu, who co-chairs the firm’s healthcare antitrust sub-group. Michelle Lowery splits her time between Los Angeles and Chicago and heads the firm’s West Coast antitrust offering. In New York, Nicole Castle is another key contact for healthcare antitrust work, working alongside seasoned antitrust expert Elai Katz, who joined the team from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in August 2023. Another new arrival is Ryan Tisch, who joined the Washington DC office from Crowell & Moring LLP in May 2023, strengthening the team’s merger clearance offering.
United States > Antitrust > Cartel
Comfortably acting across a wide spectrum of industries, including telecommunications, agriculture, aerospace, financial services and defense, McDermott Will & Emery LLP is best known for vast experience in the healthcare sector with particular proficiency at the overlap with technology-related matters. Key contacts for such matters are Chicago’s Stephen Wu and Michelle Lowery, who splits her time between Los Angeles and Chicago. Washington DC-based practice head Raymond Jacobsen’s specialisms include the representation of clients in the defense industry, while Ryan Tisch, who joined the firm from Crowell & Moring LLP in May 2023 and is also based in Washington DC, is adept at antitrust-related regulatory reviews across multiple jurisdictions. New York’s Elai Katz joined the team in August 2023 from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, strengthening the team’s expertise in the financial services, retail and pharmaceuticals segments. Andrew Lee departed in June 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Government > Government contracts
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Fintech