Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 1997

Vassar College, B.A., History, 1994

At the DOJ, served as trial attorney representing United States:

• Represented the DOJ in three-week merger trial in District of Columbia seeking to block $108 billion merger of country’s largest video distributor with largest content provider.
• Represented the DOJ in three-week merger trial in District of Columbia seeking to block $54 billion combination of two of the largest national health insurers. The merger was enjoined.
• Represented the DOJ in the investigation of the $26 billion merger of two of four national wireless carriers. The merger challenge was resolved by consent decree.
• Represented the DOJ in a Northern District of California challenge to a dominant payment network’s proposed $5 billion acquisition of a nascent financial technology competitor under Sherman Act Section 1 and Clayton Act Section 7. The merger was abandoned.
• Represented the DOJ in a two-week merger trial in the District of Delaware seeking to block the proposed $360 million merger of travel technology companies. The merger was abandoned.
• Represented the DOJ in Sherman Act Section 1 and Clayton Act Section 7 litigation in the Middle District of Pennsylvania regarding a hospital’s $100 million acquisition of ownership interest in its close competitor. The litigation was resolved by consent decree.
• Represented the DOJ in a Sherman Act Section 1 litigation in the Central District of California alleging information sharing among video distribution competitors regarding a regional sports network. The litigation was resolved by consent decree.
• Represented the DOJ in a Sherman Act Section 2 investigation of an Internet search provider for monopoly maintenance in search advertising.

In private practice:

• Outside litigation counsel for the California Attorney General in a price-fixing case against global gasoline trading firms.
• Trial counsel on the defense team that successfully opposed the FTC’s challenge to a proposed merger in the baby food business after a two-week merger trial in the District of Columbia.
• Trial counsel on the defense team for a major international telecommunications firm in a three-week antitrust trial in Orange County (California) Superior Court regarding the alleged tying of a telephone service and a high-voltage protection service. The jury rendered a 12-0 defense verdict.
• Trial counsel for a state public utility authority in a two-week administrative trial at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding market power in the New England power generation market.
• Litigation counsel for the defendants in opposing DOJ Antitrust Division’s challenge of a merger of submersible turbine petroleum pump manufacturers.