Gregory Asciolla is a partner in DiCello Levitt’s New York office, where he serves as chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice Group. Greg focuses on representing businesses, public pension funds, health and welfare funds, and consumers in complex antitrust and commodities class actions. Greg currently represents clients in antitrust matters involving price-fixing, monopolization, benchmark and commodities manipulation, pay-for-delay agreements, and other anticompetitive practices. He also has represented, pro bono, three Ugandan LGBTQ clients seeking asylum in the U.S.
Greg is regularly appointed to leadership positions in major antitrust cases in federal courts throughout the United States, including most recently Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation; European Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation; Platinum and Palladium Antitrust Litigation; Borozny v. RTX, Pratt & Whitney Division; Fusion Elite v. Varsity Brands; and Novartis and Par Antitrust Litigation. Over the course of his career, Greg has successfully litigated antitrust class actions against some of the largest corporations in the world, recovering billions on behalf of his clients. His efforts also include leading extensive investigations into potential anticompetitive conduct, often resulting in first-to-file cases.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Greg chaired a nationally recognized antitrust practice group as a partner and oversaw significant growth in group size, leadership appointments, cases filed, investigations, and reputation. He also litigated and managed civil and criminal antitrust matters on behalf of corporate entities and individuals as a partner at a highly ranked international defense firm. Greg began his career as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he focused on anticompetitive conduct in the healthcare industry.
Named a Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar by Law360 as well as a leading plaintiffs’ competition lawyer by Global Competition Review and Chambers USA, Greg is often recognized for his experience and involvement in high-profile cases. He has been named one of the Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America by Lawdragon, a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation, and a Leading Lawyer and a Next Generation Lawyer by The Legal 500, with sources describing him as “very effective plaintiffs’ counsel” and “always act[ing] with a good degree of professionalism.”
Greg makes substantial contributions to the antitrust bar. In 2016, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, where he served as the finance officer. He also currently serves as vice chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Diversity Advanced committee and vice president and membership director of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. Greg is an annual invitee of the exclusive Antitrust Forum, serves as the U.S. representative to the Business & Banking Litigation Network, and is on the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute. He was also recently elected to the Board of Directors of Public Justice. In addition, he was selected by Crain’s New York Business for its 2023 list of Notable LGBTQIA+ Leaders and was appointed to Law360’s 2023 Diversity & Inclusion Editorial Advisory Board.
Updated Sep 2024
