Mr Aidan Synnott > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP‘s ‘very diligent and highly capable‘ cartel practice has a deep and experienced bench with past agency experience, including several former senior DOJ antitrust officials and trial lawyers. The New York-based team is especially adept in representing clients in the financial services industries, counting major banks, financial service providers, and financial institutions among its key roster of clients. Litigation, both criminal and civil, is a major strength of the firm, which also handles high-profile government investigations concerning bid-rigging and price-fixing. The team is jointly led by former DOJ official Andrew C. Finch, Brette Tannenbaum, and Aidan Synnott, who regularly act on complex multijurisdictional regulatory investigations and litigation. Other senior names in the team include Joe Bial, an acclaimed litigator who acts on high-stakes international cartels and monopolization cases, and Ken Gallo, a seasoned trial lawyer with particular expertise in antitrust and intellectual property disputes.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP combines high-stakes merger clearance expertise with strong capabilities in regulatory investigations and merger-related litigation thanks to deep agency experience, bolstering its contentious antitrust expertise with the arrival of New York-based Katherine Forrest, an experienced litigator and former judge, from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in late 2022. The team acts for major public companies in a variety of industries, as well as bulge-bracket private equity clients, combining a solid deal flow from the firm’s active transactional practices with regular destination instructions for business-critical strategic deals. Antitrust co-chair and former Acting Assistant Attorney General Andrew Finch is a key figure in the team, regularly advising the likes of Apollo and Mastercard on merger clearances, while Joshua Soven arrived from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in February 2022 and is noted for his expertise in regulated industry antitrust issues, particularly in the healthcare and tech fields. Aidan Synnott also co-chairs the antitrust team, and notably advised Continental Grain on the acquisition of Sanderson Farms. Kenneth Gallo is a key name, focusing on antitrust litigation, while Brette Tannenbaum continues to bolster her reputation in contentious mandates.  Lawyers are in Washington DC unless otherwise stated.