Profile: Ilene Knable Gotts

Competition

Biography: Competition

A member of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's antitrust department, Ilene Knable Gotts represents and counsels clients on a range of antitrust matters, particularly those relating to mergers and acquisitions. Ms Gotts began her career as a staff attorney in the bureau of competition of the Federal Trade Commission in conduct and merger investigations, and in the Federal Trade Commission bureau of consumer protection.

In 1995, Ms Gotts served as the president of the Washington Council of Lawyers. She was the chair of the antitrust and trade regulation section of the Federal Bar Association from 1995 to 1997. An active participant in the section of antitrust law of the American Bar Association, Ms Gotts is currently the vice chair of the section. She previously served as the international officer, chair of the antitrust section's task force on the merger review process, and as a member of the international task force, and as the chair of the section's mergers committee and vice chair of the intellectual property committee. Ms Gotts is also the immediate past chair of the antitrust section of the New York State Bar Association. Ms Gotts is regularly recognised as one of the world's top antitrust lawyers, including being recognised in both 2006 and 2007 editions of The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers as one of the top 15 global competition lawyers, in the first tier ranking of Chambers USA Guide, and the "leading individual" ranking of PLC Which Lawyer Yearbook 2007 edition.

Ms Gotts edited both the second and third editions of the ABA's treatise on the antitrust merger review process and has had published over 120 articles on antitrust issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and Hart-Scott-Rodino compliance. She is also a frequent lecturer on antitrust topics. She serves on the advisory boards of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report, Antitrust Counselor and Antitrust Report.

Ms Gotts received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her law degree was awarded cum laude by Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. She currently serves on the board of legal advisers of Legal Momentum, the national law alumni board of Georgetown University Law Center, the advisory board of Georgetown Corporate Counsel Institute and Counsel's Council of Lincoln Center.