Mr Steven Newborn > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
2001 M STREET, NW, SUITE 600
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Steven Newborn
Work Department
Antitrust/Competition
Position
Head of Weil’s global Antitrust/Competition practice.
Career
Steve Newborn, Chair of Weil’s global Antitrust/Competition Practice, specializes in ‘bet the company’ mergers and high stakes antitrust litigation for Fortune 100 companies encompassing a wide array of industries and international venues. He has successfully obtained approvals for several hundred transactions, many of which had run into regulatory problems before he was retained. He is ranked by every publication as one of the best in the profession and has been called the “best antitrust lawyer of his generation.” Prior to entering private practice he ran the FTC’s Bureau of Competition merger enforcement program.
Education
Long Island University Brooklyn (BA, 1971); St. John’s University School of Law (JD, 1974).+1 202 682 7005
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
Counting leading global tech giants, publishers, and pharma corporations among its impressive roster of clients, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP excels across all stages of litigation, with a strong track record of securing pre-trial victories as well as defeating class certifications. Former FTC litigation director Steven Newborn
, merger review and clearance expert Brianne Kucerik, former FTC assistant director Jeffrey Perry, and Michael Moiseyev, who focuses on cross-border mandates, jointly oversee the ‘excellent’ practice; all four are based in Washington DC. New York’s Eric Hochstadt focuses on class actions and a broad range of other civil antitrust litigation, with a notable emphasis on sports-related cases. The ‘deeply experienced’ Adam Hemlock , also in New York, takes point on cartel matters, amnesty proceedings, and consumer class actions in the electronics and pharma industries.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- 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
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense