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Jeffrey Kessler, co-executive chairman of Winston Taylor, provides key advice to his clients in the sports industry, often in antitrust cases and negotiations with sports leagues. He concluded a longstanding antitrust class action case representing current and former college athletes against the NCAA regarding athletes’ monetary compensation, reaching a settlement which distributed $3bn in past damages to former athletes and established a new revenue-sharing system. In addition to this strong sports work, he is advising Microsoft on a complex antitrust and patent litigation case involving NVIDIA data processing units, key to training AI systems.
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Jeffrey L. Kessler - Winston Taylor
Co-Executive Chairman of Winston Taylor, Jeffrey Kessler is one of the world’s leading antitrust, sports law, and trial lawyers. He has served as lead counsel in some of the most complex antitrust, sports, and intellectual property litigations in the country, including major jury trials, and has represented a number of U.S. and international companies in criminal and civil investigations in the antitrust, sports law, trade, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) areas.
Jeffrey formerly served as the co-chair of Winston’s global Antitrust/Competition Practice and as the co-chair of the firm’s Sports Law Practice. Law360 has named both practices as a “Practice Group of the Year” for their respective categories.
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