Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Crowell, Proskauer add to antitrust teams, (Mar 20, 2014)

Crowell & Moring LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP have announced new additions to their antitrust practice groups.

Katherine I. Funk, joined Crowell as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Health Care groups in Washington, D.C., the firm announced yesterday. Funk is a former staff attorney in the FTC, where she reviewed mergers in health care-related and other industries. She joins Crowell from Baker & McKenzie, where she was co-chair of that firm’s North America Antitrust & Competition sub-group, within the Litigation Group. Her extensive experience in antitrust counseling and litigation will enhance Crowell’s Health Care and Antitrust groups, according to the firm’s announcement.

Meanwhile, Proskauer announced today that Christopher E. Ondeck will join the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department and will serve as Vice-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust Group. He will be resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Ondeck joins Proskauer from Crowell, where he was co-Chair of the Trade Association Group and the past Vice-Chair of the Antitrust Group. He began his career at McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

Crowell is an international law firm with more than 500 lawyers representing clients in litigation and arbitration, regulatory, and transactional matters. The firm has offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, Anchorage, London, and Brussels. Crowell’s Antitrust Group includes other former FTC attorneys, in addition to Funk. Arthur N. Lerner, co-chair of the firm’s Health Care Group and a partner in the firm’s Antitrust Group, directed the FTC’s health care antitrust program from 1982 to 1985.

Proskauer is a global law firm providing a wide variety of legal services to clients worldwide from offices in Beijing, Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Newark, Paris, São Paulo, and Washington, D.C. The firm’s Antitrust Group has extensive experience in antitrust litigation and counseling, both civil and criminal. Its lawyers have served as senior officials of federal enforcement agencies, including advisor to the Commissioner of the FTC and Deputy Assistant Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, according to the firm.

Attorneys: Katherine I. Funk (Crowell & Moring LLP); Christopher E. Ondeck (Proskauer Rose LLP).

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