Profile: Katherine Forrest

Competition

Biography: Competition

Katherine B Forrest is a partner in the Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP. Katherine has a broad practice with a particular focus in the area of competition law. Her practice has involved representing a variety of companies in high profile and complex commercial antitrust litigations, as well as antitrust advisory work and merger clearance. Among the clients for which she regularly provides antitrust advice are Time Warner Inc, HBO Inc, Time Warner Cable Inc, Warner Brothers Studios and Mylan Laboratories Inc.

In the area of merger clearance, Katherine has represented a number of companies involved in significant transactions before the FTC and DoJ including, among others, Mylan Laboratories Inc, in its acquisition of Merck KGaA's generics business, Schneider Electric in its acquisition of American Power Corporation, State Street Corporation in its acquisition of Investors Financial Services Corp, Novartis in its divestiture of Gerber, Time Warner in the sale of Time Warner Book Group to Lagardère SCA, the sale of Turner Regional Entertainment Network to Fox Cable Networks, the AOL/Time Warner merger, the sale of the Warner Music Group, the sale of WEA manufacturing and the acquisition of Grey Goose by Bacardi, among others.

Katherine's recent matters have included high profile trials and a number of appeals in both federal and state court.

Katherine was cited as being one of the country's leading practitioners in the antitrust, intellectual property and media arenas in Chambers USA 2007: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Cravath's antitrust practice received the publication's highest ranking for its ability to "roll out a terrific team tomorrow for a major antitrust case" and the intellectual property practice also received a high ranking. She was also named in The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers as a leader in competition law and was ranked as a player in competition law by PLC in its Crossborder Competition Handbook 2005/06. Katherine was recently named by The American Lawyer as one of the top 50 young litigators in America and by Lawdragon as one of the leading litigators in America. In 2005 she was named in Global Competition Review in the "40 Under 40" issue as one of the top competition practitioners or economists worldwide. She was also profiled in Global Competition Review as one of the top women antitrust practitioners worldwide.

Katherine was born in New York, New York. She received a BA with honours from Wesleyan University in 1986, and a JD from New York University School of Law in 1990. Katherine joined Cravath in 1990 and became a partner in 1998.

Katherine is a frequent lecturer in antitrust and intellectual property matters including on behalf of the Practising Law Institute at its Chicago Mergers and Acquisitions Conference in 2006 and 2007. She was also an invited speaker on "monopolisation" for the Practising Law Institute's 46th Annual Antitrust Law Institute in 2005. Katherine has also spoken at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Association, the National Council on the Arts, a Fordham University symposium, the Association of American Publishers, Dance New York, Dance USA, The National Council of the Arts, and several other groups.

Katherine has also authored a number of articles and contributed book chapters in the antitrust area including articles on cross-border transactions and the competitive exchange of information in merger and acquisition transactions.