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 antitrust and related class action and similar litigation, corporate compliance programmes and internal investigations, and merger filings and review in the US and abroad.

Mr Hartwell currently serves as a member of the council of the ABA section of antitrust law. He is also a member of the steering committee for the 2012 International Cartel Workshop and has also served as co-chair of the cartel and criminal practice committee and a member of the International Cartel Task Force. He has also 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).

Mr Hartwell graduated, summa cum laude, from Washington & Lee University School of Law, 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.