Timothy Cornell

Tim Cornell is a partner and head of Clifford Chance’s U.S. Antitrust practice, based in Washington, DC. Building on two decades of antitrust experience, he leads the U.S. team on advising global clients on complex antitrust matters including government, civil and criminal antitrust investigations, merger clearances, the regulatory review of mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and technology licensing, supply and distribution agreements, joint venture formation, and the adoption of antitrust best practices.

Tim has advocated on behalf of dozens of clients before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the federal courts and is also a thought leader in the antitrust community on a variety of issues. Tim leads the Clifford Chance veterans affinity group, CliffVets, in the United States.

United States Naval Academy (B.S.) 1992 Georgetown University Law School (J.D.) 2000 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2001 Joined Clifford Chance 2009 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in the District of Columbia 2010 Partner since 2015