Mr William Lavery > Clifford Chance > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

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.