Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Haynes and Boone snags former FTC attorney Thomas Lang, (Sep 25, 2014)

Haynes and Boone, LLP has added former FTC Senior Litigation Counsel Thomas Lang as a partner in its Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Lang joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office from Morgan Lewis, where he was an antitrust partner.

Lang concentrates his practice on antitrust litigation and merger reviews. While working with the FTC from 2006 to 2008, he served as Senior Litigation Counsel in the Bureau of Competition and led FTC trial teams in a number of high-profile FTC merger matters. He is also well versed in class actions, price fixing, predatory pricing, monopolization, as well as civil and criminal investigations by the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice.

“Tom arrives at our firm as government is accelerating antitrust enforcement in mergers and acquisitions,” stated co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group, Kathy Beasley. “Increasingly we are seeing clients in need of sophisticated counseling to navigate through crucial laws and rules in play. The timing of Tom’s addition to Haynes and Boone couldn’t be better.”

Haynes and Boone is an international law firm with over 500 lawyers in offices across Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Mexico City, New York, Orange County, Richardson, San Antonio, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Its Washington, D.C. office represents regional, national, and international clients before federal government regulatory agencies, federal courts, and international tribunals.

Attorneys: Thomas Lang and Kathy Beasley (Haynes and Boone, LLP)

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