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Fiona Schaeffer
Position
Partner, Antitrust Group
Career
Fiona Schaeffer is an international antitrust lawyer with over 25 years of experience practicing on both sides of the Atlantic. Clients entrust Ms. Schaeffer with the defense of “bet-the-company” criminal and civil cases as well as their most complex transactions. She counsels clients in a variety of industries, with a particular depth of experience in healthcare, financial services, energy, media and communications.
Ms. Schaeffer regularly represents clients in FTC and DOJ investigations and follow on class actions in the US and internationally. She also counsels clients on optimizing intellectual property rights and licensing, distribution and marketing practices without creating unnecessary legal risks. Ms. Schaeffer began her legal career in the UK, and has appeared before courts and regulators throughout the EU as well as other significant antitrust enforcement agencies around the world.
Memberships
Ms. Schaeffer is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law, former Chair of the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar Association and member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Merger control
Milbank bolstered its team with the arrival of ‘outstanding lawyer‘ Adam Di Vincenzo from Gibson Dunn in June 2022, adding significant experience in the energy and infrastructure antitrust space and establishing the firm’s presence in Washington DC, while senior counsel Daniel Rosenthal joined in August 2022 from White & Case LLP, specializing in government investigations. The firm continues to be active on domestic and cross-border deals within energy and infrastructure as well as private equity, with standout clients including the Carlyle Group, and is able to handle HSR filings alongside agency investigations and challenges, with experience in litigation before state and federal courts. The ‘smart and driven‘ Fiona Schaeffer, a highly experienced advisor on bet-the-company mergers in key sectors such as healthcare, financial services, and media, leads the team. Lawyers are based in New York unless otherwise stated.
United States > Antitrust > Cartel
(Firms to watch)Milbank‘s cartel practice was bolstered by the 2022 arrival of leading antitrust lawyer Adam Di Vincenzo, based in Washington DC. Vincenzo regularly represents clients in bet-the-company cartel litigation, while practice head Fiona Schaeffer, in New York, represents clients in FTC and DOJ investigations with particular expertise in transatlantic matters. Experienced litigator Richard Parker arrived from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in April 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: transactional
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Antitrust > Cartel