Rachel Adcox is an Antitrust Partner in Axinn’s Washington D.C. office, and is known for her ability to skillfully lead clients through complex multidistrict litigation and criminal and civil investigations. In 2018 and 2019, Rachel’s work was honored by GCR with nominations for Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence and Litigator of the Year. Rachel is also a sought-after international speaker and panelist, advising in-house counsel on a variety of competition-related topics. Prior to joining Axinn, Rachel was a Trial Attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Rima J. Alaily is a Deputy General Counsel, in the Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) department at Microsoft Corporation.  She leads the Competition Law Group; she and her team help the company comply with the competition laws around the world, close mergers and acquisitions, and respond to investigations. They also engage with regulators, academics, and others to consider the role of competition law in the face of our changing economy and the development of new technology. In addition, she is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and for civil legal aid.

Vivian advises multinational and Chinese clients on the competition law regime in China and has extensive experience in transactional and compliance advisory work on Chinese merger control and behavioural antitrust investigation matters covering a broad range of industry sectors.

She had worked on a number of high-profile global transactions ever since the early stage of China antitrust enforcement. Her clients include both multinationals and key Chinese companies. Vivian also regularly advises on the novel and most challenging antitrust/competition issues in China concerning monopoly agreements and abuse of dominance, where the competition law regime is still evolving, especially in the TMT, FMCG and healthcare sectors.

Patricia Galvan is the Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Technology Enforcement Division.  The Technology Division consists of a team of attorneys who investigate and litigate potential violations of the antitrust laws in high-technology markets.  Ms. Galvan previously served as Deputy Assistant Director in the Mergers III Division for over ten years and has been with the FTC as a staff attorney since 1999.  She has spoken to competition enforcement agencies around the world as part of the agency’s technical assistance program, and is a regular speaker on antitrust issues at professional conferences.

Uta is experienced in all aspects of German and European competition law, with a special focus on cartels and follow-on litigation, as well as multijurisdictional merger control cases.

In recent years, she has acted in major cartel investigations undertaken by the European Commission and Germany's federal competition authority.

She also represents clients in litigation proceedings before national and European courts, and has broad experience both in conducting antitrust compliance audits on a national and international level, and advising clients in merger control proceedings before national competition authorities and the European Commission.

Uta oversees recruitment and HR responsibilities in Germany and Austria, and advises the firm's senior management in relation to our global HR strategy.

Amanda Lewis is currently serving as a Counsel-Detailee to the Antitrust Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. She is on detail from the Federal Trade Commission, where she has worked since 2012.  As an attorney in the FTC’s Mergers IV division, she worked on the Staples/Office Depot litigation and numerous other merger investigations. Prior to the FTC, Amanda was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a law clerk for Judge Lawrence McKenna of the Southern District of New York. She received her B.A. from New York University in 2002 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2008. 

Petra is partner in the competition law team of Gleiss Lutz, having more than 15 years of experience in this area of the law. She regularly advises national and international clients on German and European antitrust issues, the focus of her practice including advice on antitrust prohibition and abuse of market power, along with cartel defence and merger control proceedings. Petra furthermore has a long and successful track record in connection with internal investigations and advice on compliance and has been holding lectures on competition law at the university of Passau since 2013.

Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen joined BIICL in September 2014 as a Senior Research Fellow and the director of the Competition Law Forum. Her role at BIICL is to lead the Competition Law Forum. Liza is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, appointed by the UK Competition and Markets Authority. She is a member of the International Competition Network's (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group and the Agency Effectiveness Working Group. Dr Lovdahl Gormsen sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP) edited by Professor Bill Kovacic and Professor Ariel Ezrachi.

Anna is a partner in the Slaughter and May Competition Group, based in Brussels. Anna advises on a broad range of competition and sectoral regulation matters, including cartels, merger control, state aid and market investigations.She has dealt extensively with the EU Commission and the UK Competition Authorities, as well as other competition authorities around the world. Her contentious experience includes follow-on damages actions before the national courts and appeals of Commission decisions.

Anna Meyendorff is a Partner at Bates White Economic Consulting with extensive experience testifying and consulting on complex antitrust litigation matters. Dr. Meyendorff leads teams that conduct data analysis and market research, and performs class certification, liability, and damages analyses. She has worked on projects in industries including media and entertainment, technology, communications, and consumer products. Her recent work includes testimony on behalf of Williams International, a jet engine manufacturer, in an aftermarket monopolization matter before the American Arbitration Association, and two antitrust matters involving antitrust counterclaims in the context of IP litigation.

Dr. Gabriella Monahova examines the competitive effects of proposed mergers and analyzes allegations of anti-competitive behavior in antitrust litigation cases. She has analyzed a wide variety of data, including large, terabyte-sized data sets. Her experience spans several industries, including health care and medical products, office supplies, industrial chemicals, construction products, retail and hospitality, and automotive parts manufacturing. She also has experience evaluating claims in relation to trade disputes in front of the World Trade Organization.

Maureen K. Ohlhausen chairs the antitrust group at Baker Botts, where she focuses on competition, privacy and regulatory issues and frequently represents clients in the tech industry. She served as Acting FTC Chairman from January 2017 to May 2018 and as a Commissioner starting in 2012.  She directed all FTC competition and consumer protection work, with a particular emphasis on privacy and technology issues. Ohlhausen has published dozens of articles on antirust, privacy, regulation, FTC litigation, and telecommunications law issues and has testified over a dozen times before Congress. She has received numerous awards, including the FTC's Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award.  Prior to serving as a Commissioner, Ohlhausen led the FTC's Internet Access Task Force and headed the FTC practice group at a leading communications law firm. Ohlhausen clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and received her J.D. with distinction from the George Mason University School of Law and her B.A. with honors from the University of Virginia.

 Ms. Raptis has represented clients before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice including in connection with M&As and other litigation and investigative matters. Her recent experience includes representing Array BioPharma in its acquisition by Pfizer; NXP Semiconductors N.V. in its proposed but terminated acquisition by Qualcomm Incorporated; Gilead Sciences, Inc. in its acquisition of Kite Pharma, Inc., and its 10-year global research development collaboration and equity investment in Galapagos NV; Airbnb in its acquisition of Hotel Tonight; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. in its acquisition of Cray Inc.; Intel Corporation in its acquisition of Mobileye N.V. and sale of its modem business to Apple.

Léna leads Baker McKenzie’s French Competition practice and is a member of the Baker McKenzie EMEA Competition Steering Committee.

She has a strong track record of successfully handling difficult and sensitive competition cases (investigations and subsequent litigation) and merger control at both EU and national level.

Léna advises blue-chip clients such as Casino, EDF, TDF, Avis Budget Group, Crédit Agricole, CGI and is also well established in the agricultural and food sector on a wide array of competition subjects.

Léna is ranked in various international and domestic directories and recognized as one of the best in her field (Chambers, Legal 500, Acritas, Women@ 40 in their 40s in competition, Who’s who legal, Leaders League – Décideurs.)

Julie Soloway is a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in its Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Julie advises domestic and foreign companies on all aspects of competition law, with a particular emphasis on multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions.

Julie is a co-founder of Canadian Women in Competition Law — the only group of its kind in Canada — and she is co-author of Leading the Way: Canadian Women in the Law.

Global Competition Review has named Julie as one of the top 100 Women in Antitrust globally and is consistently praised for her "truly international practice" and “fantastic legal mind.”