Profile: Ray V Hartwell III

Competition

Biography: Competition

A vice chair of Hunton & Williams' global competition practice, Ray Hartwell has more than 30 years' experience in antitrust and competition-related investigations, litigation and counselling, and has represented more than 50 corporations and executives in connection with criminal antitrust and international cartel investigations and related issues of amnesty and leniency in the United States, Canada and Europe. His practice also includes merger filings and review in the United States and abroad, corporate compliance programmes and internal investigations, and antitrust and related class action and similar litigation.

Mr Hartwell currently serves as a member of the international cartel task force and as chair of the Compliance and Ethics Committee of the ABA section of antitrust law. He has previously served on the council of the section and as a member of the ABA task force on antitrust sentencing guidelines. He has chaired the antitrust sections of both the District of Columbia bar and the Virginia state bar. He sits on the editorial board of The Antitrust Bulletin and served as editor of the ABA Handbook on Grand Jury Investigations (2nd edition, 1988). He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and the Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers. He was recently elected to be a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mr Hartwell graduated summa cum laude from Washington & Lee University law school, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review and was elected to the Order of the Coif and Omicron Delta Kappa. He managed his firm's Brussels office from 1992 to 1994. Before attending law school, Mr Hartwell served in the US Navy, where he was the anti-submarine warfare and nuclear weapons officer on a guided missile destroyer. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars.