• Co-lead counsel on a major merger review trial involving two Chicago area hospitals; obtained an administrative order unwinding the consummated merger of the hospitals (FTC).
• Led a key portion of the trial of the FTC's monopolization case against a top oil and gas refining company (FTC).
• Led the FTC’s successful efforts to debunk the "efficiencies defense" at trial seeking to block the merger of two coal mines (D.D.C.).
• Represented a data hosting firm in a case which threatened the company's survival. Took the case from filing through final trial on the merits, including extensive discovery and a successful motion for preliminary injunction, in ten weeks, and obtained favorable settlement for the company.  (Bankr. E.D. Va.)
• Following lengthy trial, obtained preliminary injunction remedying theft of trade secrets in telecommunications industry (Pa. Court of Common Pleas).
• Constant stream of 1 day and shorter trials.

Big Case Litigation.  Management of 5-20 lawyer teams on big cases successfully resolved at motion stage or through settlement.

• Currently representing private equity firm in an antitrust challenge to alleged joint bidding for acquisition of public companies.
• Represented plaintiff in RICO challenge to labor union corporate campaign.  Managed large scale motion practice that survived summary judgment and favorably positioned case for trial.  Managed 4 day pretrial conference.  Case settled the morning of opening statements.
• Extensive e discovery practice, including counseling and successful motion practice obtaining possession of laptop computers.
• Supervised trial preparation in two cases, involving a consummated software merger and a doctor cartel, in which the FTC obtained full relief through settlement.
• Represented major pharmaceutical manufacturer in antitrust dispute over patent licensing. After extensive portion's of plaintiff's claim were rejected on summary judgment, plaintiff dismissed the suit.
• Represented a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in an international patent/Lanham Act dispute involving generic drug competition. Obtained multimillion dollar settlement for client.
• Numerous cases in fields of antitrust, patents, intellectual property and trade secrets.

International Antitrust Counseling and Litigation.  Experience with cross border mergers and cartel investigations.

• Secured DOJ agreement not to prosecute alleged individual participant in European cartel.
• Counseled major airline on coordination of US and EU merger efficiencies strategies; merger cleared in both jurisdictions.
• Counseled U.S. buyer on EC competition rules regarding “creeping takeover” of public European company.
• Resident in France and Belgium 2005-06 as Fulbright visiting lecturer in competition law (France) and to develop H&W international antitrust practice (Belgium).  Admitted to practice as a foreign qualified attorney in Belgium.

• University of Virginia, Adjunct Professor, 2007 to present 

  • Teach seminar on “Antitrust in the Global Economy”
• University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
  • Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in competition law, August 2005 to February 2006
• University of Richmond, Adjunct Professor, 2001 to 2003
  • Adjunct Professor of antitrust law and appellate advocacy

• Hunton & Williams, Brussels, Be., Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Va.
  • Partner, previously associate, 1997-2003; 2006 to present
• Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C
  • Senior Litigation Counsel, 2003 to 2005
  • Served as top Commission antitrust trial lawyer, responsible for both supervising and directly handling the Commission's most complex antitrust litigation

Prior Employment

• Associate, Thompson & McMullan, 1995 to 1997
• Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, 1992 to 1995
• Law Clerk, Honorable Levin H. Campbell, United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1991 to 1992

• Member, Virginia State Bar
• Member, American Bar Association, Antitrust Section
• Member, District of Columbia Bar

• J.D., University of Virginia, Articles Review Board, Virginia Law Review, Awarded Roger and Madeline Traynor prize for outstanding written work, 1991
  
• B.A., Dartmouth College, cum laude, 1986
  

• Fluent in French; conversational knowledge of Spanish