Andrea’s broad industry experience includes particular focus in the aerospace and defense, life sciences, financial services, consumer products, e-commerce, computer hardware and software, media and entertainment, chemicals and commodities industries. She counsels clients on some of their most important strategic issues, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, pricing, distribution and has created cutting edge antitrust compliance programs. In addition, Andrea has considerable experience relating to export control matters.

Andrea was formerly based in McDermott’s Washington, DC office until 2007, where she focused her practice on mergers and acquisitions, representing clients before the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice. She has extensive experience in antitrust litigation, including complex class action matters, both at the trial and appellate levels.

In 2015, Global Competition Review recognized Andrea as one of the 40 leading private practitioners in the world under the age of 40, and she is also recommended by The Legal 500 – EMEA (competition law) as a “key name” and by GCR as “strong in mergers”. In 2017, Who’s Who Legal identified Andrea as a future leader in competition law, noting that she is “strong analytically with sound judgement and an excellent grasp of the details.”

Andrea speaks and writes regularly on antitrust issues. She serves as a member of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Committee and its Mergers Working Group, as well as the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. For several years, she has lectured at the College of Europe’s summer courses on antitrust law, and speaks worldwide on antitrust issues. In addition to publishing a number of articles on antitrust law, she co-authored the EU chapter of GCR’s Pharmaceutical Antitrust (2015-2017), and contributed to the ABA’s Best Practices in the Acquisition of a Government Contractor. In 2014, Andrea was awarded the International Association of Young Lawyer’s (AIJA) Past Presidents’ Award for a report she co-authored on collective damages in England. Previously, Andrea served as the editor in chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law.

Andrea is also a member of McDermott’s Pro Bono committee and also serves as the editor in chief of its flagship International News publication, as well as its Antitrust Alert blog.

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• Advised Praxair on the acquisition of the carbon dioxide business of Yara for € 300 million
• Advised Olam International Limited in its US$ 1.3 billion acquisition of ADM’s global cocoa business
• Advised Motorola Solutions, Inc. in the US$ 3.45 billion sale of its enterprise business to Zebra Technologies, Inc.
• Advised Mars, Inc. in its US$ 2.9 billion acquisition of the pet food business of Procter & Gamble
• Advised Fila Korea, Ltd. and Mirae Asset in connection with its US$ 1.2 billion acquisition of Acushnet Company
• Advised Orica, Ltd. on its US$1.7 billion acquisition of Dyno Nobel’s explosives business
• Advised Lockheed Martin in the formation of the United Launch Alliance joint venture
• Advised L-1 in the US$ 1.6 billion sale of its intelligence business to BAE Systems
• Numerous portfolio acquisitions and divestitures for private equity firms
• Advised a third-party intervener in the divestment proceedings following Universal’s acquisition of EMI

EU Cartels and Litigation

• Advised a financial services company in the context of an antitrust investigation conducted by the European Commission
• Advised a shareholder in a 50:50 joint venture in the context of a cartel investigation conducted by the European Commission
• Represented companies in the first settlement case under the European Commission’s Cartel Settlement Procedure, as well as the first hybrid settlement case under this procedure
• Advised in the appeal of a cartel decision before the EU General Court on behalf of a client in the chemicals industry
• Assisted in obtaining a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union in an antitrust damage claim action brought by Cartel Damage Claims
• Assisted in advising a US-based technology company in a competition claim in the UK High Court for abuse of dominance in the creation and licensing of certain patents underlying the MP3 standards

US Litigation and Class Action Defense

• Represented the US Chamber of Commerce as amicus curiae brief before the US Supreme Court in Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher, which clarified the application of antitrust law to joint ventures
• Byers v. Intuit, et al. – assisted in the successfully obtaining dismissal of a class action matter, upheld on appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Assisted in the successful defense of multiple antitrust class actions in federal courts across the US alleging that hospitals engaged in wage-fixing conspiracies
• In re Chocolate Confectionery Litigation (indirect purchaser action) – assisted in the defense of Mars, Inc.
• Ortho Biotech v. Amgen, assisted in successfully defeating preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin a bundled discount arrangement

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Languages
English
French
Italian

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