Jones Day focuses on investigations and disputes of national and cross-border significance. The firm deploys antitrust litigators rather than generalists, and its teams are involved in coordinated defense groups alongside other leading global firms. A feature of the practice is its depth of government experience: 13 members of the US antitrust team previously served at the Federal Trade Commission and/or the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division. The practice is co-led globally by Craig Waldman in Washington, DC, who brings more than 30 years of experience across mergers, monopolization, cartel matters and IP-related antitrust issues. Also in DC, John Majoras is known for leading high-profile antitrust trials and merger challenges, while Julie McEvoy draws on DOJ experience of supervising civil and criminal antitrust matters. David Kiernan contributes trial and economic expertise from San Francisco, and Columbus-based Tiffany Lipscomb-Jackson brings experience in antitrust litigation across regulated driven industries.
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- The lead partner I work with in this area is a top-notch lawyer. He is responsive, practical, and provides guidance that is useful and not in a language that I cannot understand (i.e., the client). His level of service and ability to speak to our business teams exceed other firms I work with.
Key clients
- Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Google, Inc. and Alphabet Inc.
- Ag Canada and Summerland Varieties Corporation
- Home Depot
- National Beef Packing Company, LLC.
- OneWater Marine
- RE/MAX, LLC
- Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC
- Seaboard Foods LLC
- Ubisoft
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Wabtec Corporation
Work highlights
Defending Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC in more than 400 lawsuits asserting consumer protection and antitrust claims on behalf of public and private entities alleging that Sanofi and other insulin manufacturers conspired with Pharmacy Benefit Managers to artificially inflate the price of insulin products.
Secured a victory for Wabtec in a significant antitrust action brought by competitor Progress Rail, which challenged Wabtec's 2019 acquisition of GE Transportation under Section 7 of the Clayton Act.
Represented several Wells Fargo entities, including Wells Fargo Securities and Wells Fargo Advisors, and won dismissal of the second amended complaint in putative class action antitrust litigation filed against more than a dozen alleged horizontal competitors related to the purchase and sale of odd-lots of corporate bonds in the secondary corporate bond market.
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Practice head
Craig A. Waldman
Other key lawyers
John Majoras; Julie McEvoy; David Kiernan; Michelle Fischer; Jeffrey LeVee; Tiffany Lipscomb-Jackson; Lin Kahn; Peter Schwingler; Eddie Hasdoo; Brian Grube