Mr David Marriott > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

David Marriott, who operates out of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s New York office, has acted in precedent-setting trials in recent years, including the first vertical merger challenge to go to the FTC in 40 years. In 2023, Mariott was lead counsel in a case for Amgen Inc, one of the biggest biopharmaceutical companies in the world in relation to its $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics. Marriott is an experienced trial lawyer with many successes, and has a strong record in areas such as antitrust, employment, and IP.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP fields an ‘excellent, dedicated and highly professional team’ of seasoned trial lawyers who are adept across the full range of high-profile, business-critical litigation, including disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, employee ‘raiding’, and unfair competition claims, among many others. New York-based attorneys Gary Bornstein and Kevin Orsini, who is praised by clients as the ‘best in the business’, jointly head the litigation department. Bornstein predominantly focuses on antitrust, M&A and securities litigation, while Orsini remains a key name for complex litigation relating to mass torts and post-M&A disputes, among others. Pre-eminent trial lawyer David Marriott‘s practice emphasises litigation and arbitration in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, employment and securities, while Lauren Moskowitz represents some of the firm’s biggest clients in crucial restructuring andIP litigation mandates, including appearing before the Supreme Court. Former firm chairman Evan Chesler retired from the litigation department in December 2023. All named contacts are based in New York

The antitrust team at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP routinely acts for leading names in the tech, media, and life sciences sectors and has extensive experience handling precedent-setting, business-critical litigation cases spanning the full range of antitrust issues, including monopolization allegations, price-fixing, and consumer class actions. Former assistant attorney general for antitrust Christine Varney and former FTC Commissioner Noah Joshua Phillips  in Washington DC, jointly head the team, leveraging their agency experience to advise clients in bet-the-company litigations and class actions. Seasoned litigator David Marriott takes point on both vertical and horizontal merger challenges and has an impressive track record in this area. Described by clients as ‘one of the best,’ Kevin Orsini, who co-heads the firm’s litigation department alongside experienced antitrust litigator Gary Bornstein, is another key member of the team who routinely takes point on large and complex antitrust litigations and class action cases in the digital advertising and finance sectors. Lauren Roberta Kennedy is a key name for multidistrict litigations in the healthcare sector. Unless otherwise stated, all mentioned lawyers are based in New York.