Profile: Paul W Bartel II

Competition

Biography: Competition

A member of Davis Polk & Wardwell's litigation department, Mr Bartel represents US and non-US companies in antitrust litigation and enforcement agency investigations. He is active in domestic and cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures that involve US and European Community antitrust considerations.

His recent representations have included Freeport McMoRan in its acquisition of Phelps Dodge; The St Paul Companies in the combination with Travelers; Royal Caribbean Cruises in its proposed combination with P&O Princess Cruises; EMI in its proposed combination with Warner Music; Bertelsmann in its acquisition of Random House; Compaq Computer in its acquisition of Digital Equipment; Texas Instruments in the sale of its defensce business to Raytheon; Hudson Foods in the sale of its business to Tyson Foods; Borg Warner in the creation of a joint venture combining the businesses of Wells Fargo and Loomis.

He also has represented RJR Nabisco in its acquisition of the Kraft tablespreads business; General Electric in the sale of Kidder, Peabody to PaineWebber; Reed Elsevier in its acquisitions of Matthew Bender and Shepard's from Times Mirror, Official Airline Guide from Maxwell and LEXIS-NEXIS from Mead Paper; Hoffman-La Roche in its acquisition of Syntex; and Medical Care America in the sales both of its home infusion business to Caremark and of its surgery centre business to Columbia/HCA. Recent litigation includes representation of Time Distribution Services (a joint venture between Time Inc and The New York Times) in extensive antitrust litigation brought by the French publisher Hachette, and representation of Primestar Partners (a joint venture of leading cable television system operators) in federal and state antitrust investigations concerning Primestar's launch of the first direct broadcast satellite television business. His other clients include Emerson Electric Company, VF Corporation, EMI, Royal Caribbean, Imperial Chemical Industries, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and JP Morgan.

Mr Bartel joined Davis Polk in 1981 and became a partner in 1988.

Mr Bartel graduated, magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1975 and in 1978 received his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was notes and comments editor of the law review and a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. He clerked for the Honourable Jack B Weinstein of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and, from 1979 to 1981, was attorney-adviser to Commissioner Robert Pitofsky of the Federal Trade Commission.

He has spoken at numerous panels and conferences addressing antitrust matters and is the author of a chapter of Matthew Bender's Antitrust Counseling and Litigation Techniques. Mr Bartel is on the executive committee of the antitrust section of the New York State Bar Association and has served on the American Bar Association's Task Force on Legislative Review of the FTC, as a member of the committee on antitrust and trade regulation of the New York City Bar Association and as a member of the Clayton Act and Sherman Act committees of the American Bar Association. He was also a member of the Mayor of New York's Commission to Combat Domestic Violence.