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John Briggs, a former chair of the ABA’s Section of Antitrust Law, is one of the most accomplished competition lawyers of his generation. He has been antitrust and litigation counsel of choice for dozens of major companies in the US, Asia and Europe. He has handled substantial competition litigation matters as lead trial and appellate counsel for more than 50 Global 500 companies. In mergers, he has considerable trial and regulatory experience, having represented one or both merging parties in fully litigated successful merger cases against both the FTC and the DOJ, including on behalf of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Currently, he is lead counsel for Independence Blue Cross in the largest class action antitrust case pending in the United States and Shintech Incorporated in two substantial consolidated class action antitrust lawsuits, having successfully established the court’s lack of jurisdiction over Shintech’s shareholder, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. He has also been engaged as an antitrust expert witness in proceedings in Australia, Canada, California, Switzerland, the UK, New York, Texas, and elsewhere. He founded the Brussels office of his prior law firm in 2001, growing it to more than 50 lawyers before his departure, and established the DC office of his current firm in January 2009, now some forty lawyers. He was an adjunct professor at The George Washington Law School for nine years until 2019, teaching a course in International Competition Law and he has written more than fifty published articles on competition law and policy.

American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law: Chair (1995-1996); Program Officer (1993-1994); Secretary (1991-1992); Chairman of Editorial Board of Antitrust Law Developments (1984-1989) Member, MLex Advisory Board, (2016-2020) Member, Advisory Board, Bureau of National Affairs’ Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (1994-2015) Member, Law360 Advisory Board, (2010-2015) Member, Trial Law Institute Member, Diversity Law Institute Barrister, Order of Veritas, Diversity Law Institute Advocate, Order of Certus, Diversity Law Institute Fellow, American Bar Foundation Board of Trustees, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia (1996-2010)

JD – Georgetown University Officer, United States Navy AB – Harvard College