Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Alston & Bird bolsters Antitrust Practice with new hires, (Oct 7, 2015)

Former Justice Department Antitrust Division counsel John Snyder and attorney Adam J. Biegel have joined Alston & Bird LLP’s Antitrust Practice as partners in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Biegel will lead the office’s Antitrust Practice.

Snyder, who previously served as counsel to Assistant Attorney General William Baer, has extensive experience in merger and non-merger investigations, enforcement actions, and competition policy initiatives. He has also worked with Deputy Assistant Attorneys General to supervise recent investigations into the telecommunications, technology, and health care sectors.

Biegel concentrates his practice on representing leading and global companies on a wide range of antitrust matters, including issues before the Justice Department and FTC, mergers and joint ventures, internal investigations, pricing and distribution practices, compliance counseling and training, and multidistrict litigation and pre-merger reviews. He is relocating from the firm’s Atlanta office.

“The arrival of John and Adam is an unprecedented opportunity for us in the most high-profile antitrust market in the world,” stated chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice, Teresa Bonder. “Both have broad knowledge and insight into the inner workings of the government’s policies and priorities for investigating anticompetitive conduct, and clients will value their solid command of the challenges and complexities of national and cross-border antitrust requirements, as well as the work of the federal enforcement agencies.”

Alston & Bird is an international law firm with over 900 attorneys in offices in Atlanta, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, Durham, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C.

Attorneys: John Snyder, Adam J. Biegel, and Teresa Bonder (Alston & Bird LLP).

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