Antitrust
With multiple victories against enforcement agencies in merger litigation, Latham & Watkins LLP is a trusted advisor to firms facing challenges to their high-profile and critical transactions. The firm is highly regarded for its comprehensive antitrust and competition expertise, including trials, investigations, global merger clearance, and cartel defense. The team’s skilled litigators have consistently demonstrated the ability to defeat cases pre-trial and secure favorable outcomes in trials involving allegations of conspiracy, monopolization, and price-fixing. Based in Washington DC, Mike Egge serves as global antitrust and competition chair. In the Bay Area, Al Pfeiffer has a strong track record of achieving victories in trials, arbitrations, summary judgments, and appeals in complex antitrust cases. Also on the West Coast, vice chair Belinda Lee brings deep strategic insight to managing sweeping multidistrict litigation. Bay Area-based Christopher Yates is a prominent figure in sports antitrust litigation, while in DC Jennifer Giordano offers broad expertise in monopoly, price-fixing, unfair competition, and price discrimination claims. David Marriott joined the team in August 2025.
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Profile
Position
Belinda Lee, Global Vice Chair of Latham’s Antitrust & Competition Practice, represents global companies in high-stakes litigation and investigations, with particular experience defending private damages actions and navigating clients through international jurisdictions.
Belinda represents global companies in antitrust and complex litigation matters pending in courts throughout the United States, and before government regulators in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Belinda has extensive experience defending and advising companies in the technology, consumer products, transportation, and manufacturing industries. She has represented these companies in consumer class actions, price-fixing, monopolization, unfair competition, and licensing disputes.
She has defeated class certification several times and regularly guided clients through criminal investigations that close without enforcement action.
Belinda is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and serves by appointment on the Law360 Editorial Board for Competition and the Executive Committee of the Antitrust & Unfair Competition Section of the California Lawyers Association. She serves on the Board of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus and is a frequent author and speaker on legal issues relating to expert witnesses, antitrust compliance, and law firm diversity.
As the former Global Chair of Latham’s Training and Career Enhancement Committee, Belinda oversaw the formal and informal training programs for all Latham attorneys, from summer associates to senior partners.
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Key clients
- Apple CoStar EssilorLuxottica Live Nation The Atlantic Coast Conference NASCAR Michelin AvalonBay United Sugar Refiners and Producers US Soccer Cendyn Multiplan Chesapeake Energy The American Red Cross Hermes Fanatics
Work highlights
Representing the American National Red Cross in an antitrust litigation filed against it by US biotech company Verax Biomedical.
Secured dismissal for Apple in a putative antitrust class action filed in California federal court.
Defended AvalonBay in multiple cases related to algorithmic pricing.