The ‘very diligent, knowledgeable, attentive, and easily accessible’ antitrust team at DLA Piper LLP (US) represents individual executives, insurance companies, and healthcare sector players in the full range of class actions and civil antitrust litigation. John Hamill now heads the practice from the Chicago office and excels in representing clients across the full spectrum of commercial litigation, including antitrust issues and unfair competition matters. The ’outstanding and efficient’ David Hamilton joined the firm’s Baltimore office from Womble Bond Dickinson in February 2023; Hamilton has a broad practice spanning monopolization, price-fixing, and cartel litigation. Brian Boyle, in Philadelphia, represents corporate clients as plaintiffs and defendants in cartel, merger, and pricing conduct antitrust mandates, while Washington DC-based litigator David Bamberger is a key contact for class actions. The growing team saw its East Coast offering further expanded with the January 2024 arrivals of former FTC attorney Amanda Wait, investigations expert Vic Domen, and former federal prosecutor Carsten Reichel from Norton Rose Fulbright; all are based in Washington DC. Lisa Tenorio-Kutzkey left the firm in January 2024.
Testimonials
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‘DLA Piper meets clients where they are and calibrates advice to its clients' capabilities and operational realities. In other words, the firm guides clients to success one step at a time with a focus on what the clients can do. ’
‘Brian Boyle pays attention to the little things and takes time to get to know his clients - individually and organizationally. He looks for simple solutions and maintains a calm, positive demeanor in challenging circumstances.’
‘DLA Piper's global reach and wealth of experience in the sports sector is critically important for us. They know our specific industry very well, including unique insights on how key players will conduct themselves in a dispute. ’
‘John Hamill in particular is a trusted advisor and usually my first call when a controversy arises.'
‘DLA Piper has both the breadth of practice and resources necessary to handle the kind of high-stakes litigation we partner with them on. That is, multi-party, multi-jurisdiction, multi-claim litigation in which plaintiffs are pursuing many billions of dollars in damages.’
‘We've worked closely with David Hamilton. David is phenomenal. Brilliant lawyer with decades of relevant experience. Very talented strategist with lots of real-world trial experience.’
‘David Hamilton is outstanding and efficient, with wise counsel, attentive to all relative issues, and knows where to focus for maximum impact.’
‘The team is very diligent, knowledgeable, attentive, and easily accessible.’
Key clients
- Aquis Inc.
- AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.
- McCormick & Company, Inc.
- Komatsu America Corporation
- Maxell
- International Franchise Association
- Danielson
- Automobile Auctions (Auto Auctions)
Work highlights
- Representing Danielson National Insurance Company in a putative class action where the Plaintiffs allege a 15-year conspiracy between nearly 20 sureties in the bail bond industry and two former executives to fix the premium price of bail bonds and suppress the advertisement of rebates in California.|
- Represented McCormick & Company, Inc. in a Lanham Act case in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, for claims that certain alleged changes in the packaging of McCormick’s pepper products violated the Lanham Act and various state consumer protection statutes.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
John Hamill