Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Antitrust & Competition practice is co-led by Rachel Brass in San Francisco and Cynthia Richman and Kristen C. Limarzi in Washington DC. Under this leadership, the team handles the full breadth of criminal and civil antitrust matters. Limarzi manages corporate and individual enforcement matters in DC, while Brass and Richman provide strategic oversight of litigation, class actions, and cross-border enforcement. Key DC-based partners include Jeremy Robison, who focuses on global cartel investigations, leniency applications, and complex civil and criminal enforcement matters; and Scott Hammond and Stephen Weissman, who lead criminal investigations and multijurisdictional cartel defenses. The practice represents clients in civil and criminal DOJ investigations, including antitrust inquiries into algorithmic pricing, bid-rigging, and HSR-related compliance. Recent matters include defending RealPage in the first US cases involving algorithmic pricing, securing dismissal of a California antitrust suit against UBS, and representing multinational clients in multijurisdictional cartel investigations.
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Key clients

  • RealPage
  • UBS

Work highlights

Defending RealPage in groundbreaking antitrust cases - the first anywhere to challenge ‘algorithmic pricing' - the DOJ closed its criminal probe in 2024, and in 2025 RealPage defeated Berkeley’s ordinance banning its software, forcing the city to suspend the law after our successful injunction.
Secured dismissal of a California antitrust suit against UBS over ICE LIBOR-setting, affirmed by the Ninth Circuit and ultimately left standing when the US Supreme Court denied certiorari.

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Practice head

Rachel Brass; Cynthia Richman; Kristen Limarzi

Other key lawyers

Jeremy Robison; Scott Hammond; Stephen Weissman