Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Four prominent antitrust lawyers join Paul, Weiss, (Aug 5, 2016)

Attorneys Charles F. Rule, Jonathan S. Kanter, Joseph J. Bial, and Andrew J. Forman will be joining Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as partners in its Antitrust Group, resident in Washington D.C., the firm has announced.

Rule, who will be joining the firm as co-chair of its Antitrust Group, is one of the world’s leading antitrust attorneys. He has advised in some of the biggest, front-page deals in airline, food and beverage, hospitality, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, software, and other industries. He is a former head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, becoming the youngest Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust) in history, and is regularly recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent antitrust lawyers. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Kanter is a nationally recognized antitrust lawyer and a veteran of the FTC. He also is recognized as among the nation’s "go to" lawyers for matters involving tech and media and has represented some of the world’s most significant companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, government investigation, and public policy. He received a B.A. cum laude from SUNY University and a J.D. from the Washington University School of Law.

Bial represents clients in high-profile antitrust and commercial litigation. He also has extensive experience handling international cartel actions and antitrust cases, has consulted as an economic expert, and has worked as an economist at the White House Office of Management and Budget. He received a B.A. from Miami University, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona, and a J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Bradley Fellow and a John M. Olin Fellow.

Forman focuses on counseling clients on antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and Department of Justice and FTC investigations. He helped lead teams that won Global Competition Review antitrust "Matter of the Year" awards in 2014 and 2015, was a former FTC Bureau of Competition lawyer, and has extensive experience in pharmaceutical matters. He received a B.A. with honors from Washington University and J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Center.

Paul, Weiss is a firm with more than 900 lawyers that represents the largest publicly and privately held corporations and investors in the world.

Attorneys: Charles F. Rule, Jonathan S. Kanter, Joseph J. Bial, and Andrew J. Forman (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP).

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