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Sharis Pozen

Position
Sharis Pozen is a partner and is the Co-Head of the Global Antitrust Practice at Clifford Chance, based in Washington, DC. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice.
Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at GE, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C.
Sharis is one of the few antitrust practitioners who has served in high-level positions at both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Education
Connecticut College (B.A.) 1986
Washington University, St. Louis (J.D.) 1989
Admitted as an attorney-at-law in Missouri 1989
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the District of Columbia 1995
Joined Clifford Chance as a Partner May 2019
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Antitrust > Merger control
The merger control practice at Clifford Chance handles a full range of contentious and noncontentious matters, from initial antitrust analysis to complex U.S. merger investigations and multi-jurisdictional merger clearance. The team’s sector expertise spans the technology, healthcare, and energy fields, with clients including Amazon.com, Adobe, and Unilever. Leigh Oliver heads the firm’s U.S. antitrust practice, based in Washington DC: also co-head of its global healthcare and life sciences sector group, Oliver is experienced advising clients in highly regulated sectors and specializes in antitrust matters from merger control to federal investigations. Sharis Pozen draws on experience within both the Department of Justice and FTC, as well as in-house, to advise clients across the technology, telecommunications, and energy sectors. For litigation arising out of merger control matters, William Lavery and Joseph Ostoyich are go-tos. Tim Cornell departed the team in May 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Tax > International tax
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > Financial products
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Tax > International tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power