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Nana Wilberforce

Work Department
Antitrust and Competition; Cross-Border Investigations and Compliance; Investigations; Monitorships
Position
Partner
Career
Nana Wilberforce focuses her regulatory and government affairs practice on matters involving antitrust and competition. Ms. Wilberforce has extensive experience navigating clients through the Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program in cartel enforcement matters. She has counseled clients through shifts in competition policy brought on by presidential administration changes and has worked to secure merger clearance for transactions across a range of industries, including healthcare, biotechnology and energy.
Ms. Wilberforce’s practice includes a commitment to public service and pro bono contributions. She was also selected as WilmerHale’s 2017 Pickering fellow and spent six months working full time with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and is currently part of the litigation team co-counseled with LDF challenging Georgia’s voting law, S.B. 202. In the past she has worked with Children’s Law Center to represent a client in the successful adoption of the client’s foster child and grandniece and is currently working with The Legal Aid Society on an appellate matter.
Ms. Wilberforce is a member of the Antitrust section of the American Bar Association, a member of the Antitrust, UCL and Privacy section of the California Lawyers Association, and a member of the Military Spouse JD Network.
Memberships
Bar Admissions:
California
District of Columbia
New York
Education
Columbia University , M.P.H. (2014)
Columbia Law School , J.D. (2013)
Stanford University , B.A. (2008)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Cartel
(Next Generation Partners)–
WilmerHale is particularly well versed in supporting clients in multi-jurisdictional cartel proceedings, working together seamlessly with other experts from the firm’s US, European and Asian offices. With a track record of secured non-prosecution agreements and leniency protection, practice chair Thomas Mueller specializes in global cartel enforcement matters, while Jennifer Milici is a name to note for advice on regulatory topics. ‘Excellent attorney’ Steven Cherry recommended for proceedings before trial and appellate courts, including the US Supreme Court, with his expertise extending to government investigations, class actions, and arbitration. Heading the firm’s antitrust practice in New York, David Gringer represents clients in disputes with the DOJ, FTC, state attorneys general offices, claimants and private class plaintiffs. In Los Angeles, Nana Wilberforce advises on price-fixing allegations by both the DOJ and the European Commission, with noted experience in the natural gas, technology, auto parts manufacturing, and financial services segments. Unless stated otherwise, all mentioned lawyers are based in Washington DC.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense