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Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

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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.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Cravath has helped develop a winning strategy for a very complex MDL. The strategy and performance have been fantastic.’

  • ‘Kevin Orsini is one of the best antitrust litigators in the market.’

Key clients

  • Amgen Inc.
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
  • Corteva, Inc.
  • Epic Games, Inc.
  • International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM")
  • Illumina, Inc.
  • Light & Wonder, Inc.
  • Meta Platforms, Inc.
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Robinhood Markets, Inc.
  • Tesla, Inc.
  • The Walt Disney Company

Work highlights

  • Represented Amgen in successfully defending against an FTC challenge to Amgen’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics.
  • Representing Meta in putative class action and individual antitrust litigation filed throughout the country related to the multi-billion-dollar digital advertising industry.

Lawyers

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Kevin Orsini

Kevin Orsini

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Kevin J. Orsini is Co-Head of Cravath's Litigation Department. He regularly plays a central role in major corporate battles that redefine the law. With substantial first‑chair trial experience, he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been named Benchmark Litigation’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year” and “General Commercial Litigator of the Year.” Mr. Orsini’s practice focuses on complex litigation, including antitrust, mass torts, mergers and acquisitions, securities and other commercial disputes.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Christine Varney, Noah Joshua Phillips

Other key lawyers

Gary Bornstein, Kevin Orsini, Lauren Roberta Kennedy, David Marriott