Rachel Adcox is the founder of Adcox Strategies. Adcox’s work focuses on advising her industry leading clients on a range of antitrust matters with one standout matter involving allegations of price-fixing and unlawful information sharing. Key clients include a major, multinational corporation in the food industry.
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After 15 years building and leading a world-class antitrust litigation practice at Axinn, Rachel Adcox founded Adcox Strategies to provide independent antitrust advice to industry-leading companies and their counsel. Although best known for guiding clients through high-risk civil litigations and regulatory investigations, Rachel is also a trusted advisor on a full range of criminal and civil antitrust matters, including information sharing practices and algorithmic pricing, internal investigation management, contracting practices, pricing and distribution policies, and corporate compliance. Clients all over the world rely on Rachel’s strategic acumen, judgment, and “instinct for what will work,” while describing her as a “master strategist,” “super smart, incredibly pragmatic and practical,” and “the best of the best.” 

In addition to being recognized by Legal 500 as an elite practitioner in Washington D.C. and previously as a Leading Lawyer, Rachel’s legal accolades include being ranked by Chambers USA as an Antitrust Litigation Specialist and by the National Law Journal as a Litigation Trailblazer. Prior to joining private practice, Rachel was a Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Memberships
  • American Bar Association Sections of Antitrust Law, Litigation, Law Practice, and Solo, Small Firm, and General Practice Divisions
  • American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel
  • District of Columbia Bar Association
  • Maryland State Bar Association
Education
  • Michigan State University  
  • The George Washington University Law School 

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Key clients

  • Cantex Inc.
  • Prime Conduit Inc.

Work highlights

Provides counsel to five manufacturer defendants in consolidated treble-damages class action suits alleging industry-wide conspiracies to manipulate the price of PVC pipe through alleged price-fixing and unlawful information exchange.