Biography: Competition

Kevin Sullivan is a partner in King & Spalding's Washington, DC office. His practice includes a wide variety of criminal and civil litigation. Because of the clients he represents and his experience at the US Justice Department antitrust division, he has developed extensive experience in antitrust, white-collar defence work and civil litigation. Mr Sullivan is recognised as a Leading Antitrust Lawyer by Chambers ('innovative and creative - he can view a problem up close or from 30,000 feet, depending on the objective at hand'), one of the Nation's Top 10 Antitrust Lawyers in the United States Lawyer Rankings, and Mr Sullivan has been nominated by his peers as one of the world's leading competition lawyers and listed in The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists.

Presently, Mr Sullivan represents a variety of clients involved in federal antitrust criminal investigations and civil cases. Mr Sullivan defends and prosecutes antitrust civil cases from initiation through trial and appeal. Mr Sullivan has extensive experience in international antitrust matters and has coordinated merger approvals and responses to foreign government antitrust investigations in Europe, before the European Commission and its member states, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

Mr Sullivan speaks and writes widely on antitrust issues. He is the editor-in-chief of the ABA Handbook on Antitrust Grand Jury Investigations, a member of the ABA antitrust section international task force, former co-chair of the ABA antitrust section criminal practice and procedure committee, former chair of the annual meeting programme committee and former chair of the corporate governance task force.