Heather is a partner in our antitrust, competition and trade practice, based in Washington, DC who specializes in antitrust litigation, and has spent the last 25+ years helping her clients successfully navigate complex antitrust matters pending in state and federal courts, as well as enforcement actions before the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general.
Heather prides herself in being a creative litigator with a long history of getting antitrust cases dismissed at early stages for her clients, defeating class certification in a large multi-district litigation case, as well as trying antitrust cases before both judges and juries. Her experience spans a wide variety of claims – from conspiracy claims of market allocation or price-fixing, to monopolization claims of exclusive dealing, bundling, tying to and unfair competition claims.
In addition to litigation, Heather defends companies and individuals in criminal price-fixing (cartel) investigations before the DOJ and worldwide regulators, including being involved most of the large, global cartel investigations over the past two decades.
Heather is consistently recognized for her work by leading industry publications including The Legal 500, Global Competition Review, The Best Lawyers in America, Benchmark Litigation, and Who’s Who Legal.
Heather’s experience includes defending:
- Ten colleges and universities, including Notre Dame, Boston College, Boston University, and University of Denver in an antitrust class action lawsuit against the NCAA and the schools alleging that their enforcement of and adherence to a particular NCAA rule involving men’s college hockey, is anti-competitive (Masterson v. NCAA, et al.).
- Camber Pharmaceuticals and Breckenridge Pharmaceuticals in In re Generic Pharma Antitrust Pricing Litigation, which alleges industry-wide conspiracy to allocate customers and fix prices.
- Master Builders Solutions in DOJ grand jury subpoena concerning alleged information sharing and collusion of concrete admixtures, and related investigation by state attorneys general.
- Auto Part Supplier JTEKT in DOJ price fixing criminal investigations (and foreign regulators), and follow-on class action case that resulted defeat of class certification.
- Holcim/LaFarge class action and competitor cases stemming from DOJ investigation and alleged price fixing in the ready-mix cement markets.
- Delta Dental member companies in class actions alleging territorial market allocation and information sharing
- Zillow in a case brought by an alleged competitor claiming predatory pricing, unfair competition and false advertising related to for-sale-by-owner postings.
- North American Soccer League in a lawsuit alleging that U.S. Soccer and Major League Soccer conspired to eliminate D1 and D2 men’s soccer competition.
- Covidien in trial alleging monopolization of sharps container medical device market through exclusive dealings and bundled pricing Englewood Hospital in FTC v. Hackensack Meridian Health, FTC challenge to hospital merger.
Updated Sep 2024
