Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Antitrust, Litigation

Trained in the EU and the US, Daniel Bitton navigates clients through antitrust litigation, government investigations and merger clearance processes across the globe. He is regular antitrust counsel to various corporate clients, ranging from major Fortune 500 companies, such as Google, McKesson and Stanley Black & Decker, to private equity funds and startups or early-growth companies.

Daniel’s recent matters include representing Google in litigation and investigations of its advertising business in the US and other jurisdictions; McKesson subsidiary RelayHealth in antitrust class actions and a related FTC investigation and litigation regarding Surescripts; Stanley Black & Decker in its acquisition of MTD Products and Excel Industries; Danfoss Group in cartel litigation; Johnson Controls in its US$2 billion sale of Scott Safety to 3M; McKesson in various M&A transactions, including its US$3.4 billion technology joint venture with Change Healthcare and its US$1.4 billion acquisition of CoverMyMeds; Dell in its US$67 billion acquisition of EMC; Thermo Fisher Scientific in its US$13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies; and Google in its US$2.35 billion sale of Motorola Home to ARRIS, and its US$700 million acquisition of ITA Software.

Daniel’s thought leadership on antitrust includes GCR’s “United States: E-Commerce and Big Data Merger Control.”

American Bar Association New York Bar Association California Lawyers Association – Antitrust Section

LLM – New York University School of Law (2004) Stibbe full scholarship and Noorthey scholarship University of California Berkeley School of Law, Visiting Student (2000) MA, Netherlands Law – Free University (2001)