Morrison Foerster

Fielding a strong bench with significant agency experience, the antitrust and competition practice at Morrison Foerster counts leading pharma companies, media entities, and prominent tech corporations among its impressive roster of clients. The group is particularly adept at handling class actions following cartel investigations, as well as litigated merger challenges and cases concerning market dominance claims. Alexander Okuliar and former Antitrust Division criminal enforcement chief Lisa Phelan jointly oversee the team from Washington DC; Okuliar is a key contact for competitor-on-competitor antitrust litigation. Other key individuals in Washington DC are David Cross, Megan Gerking, and Mary Kaiser. Cross has a broad antitrust practice that covers monopolization and price-fixing allegations, including algorithmic price-fixing; Kaiser is another name to note here. Additionally active in the algorithmic price-fixing space, Gerking, a former DOJ antitrust trial attorney, also takes point on litigated merger clearances. On the West Coast, San Francisco’s Bonnie Lau and Eliot Adelson have extensive experience advising tech sector clients on multidistrict litigations, government enforcement actions, and class actions.