McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Antitrust/Competition

Joel R. Grosberg is co-head of McDermott’s Antitrust Mergers Focus Group and assists clients on civil and criminal antitrust matters, including obtaining merger clearances, counseling and litigation. He has represented clients in obtaining antitrust approvals in numerous challenging transactions, and in other government antitrust investigations before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and foreign competition authorities. Joel has significant experience in the high tech, chemical, health care and life sciences industries, including counseling on matters related to pricing and distribution practices and other competition-related issues.

Joel is consistently recognized in Chambers USA and was ranked as a leading antitrust lawyer in The Legal 500 United States and SuperLawyers. Chambers USA reports that Joel has “notable agency experience at the FTC,” and is “very knowledgeable…on merger related work.”

Earlier in his career, Joel was an attorney with the FTC’s Bureau of Competition (Mergers II), where he handled a full range of antitrust matters involving the chemical, computer hardware semiconductor, automotive parts, plastics, toy and paper industries.