Profile: Paul Yde

Competition

Biography: Competition

Paul Yde is a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's US antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) group, based in the Washington, DC office. He joined the firm in May 2002. His practice primarily involves representing parties before the DoJ and the FTC on the antitrust aspects of M&A, joint ventures and other collaborations, and distribution and intellectual property arrangements. Paul has acted as lead counsel on dozens of complex matters relating to a variety of industries. He has litigated antitrust cases before federal and state courts and in federal administrative proceedings.

Before joining the firm, Paul was a partner at Vinson & Elkins where he was co-chair of its antitrust practice. Among his prior positions in government antitrust enforcement, he has served as counsel to two federal trade commissioners and as a litigation attorney in the FTC's Bureau of Competition.

Paul has been active in the leadership of the antitrust section of the ABA, and is a frequent speaker and author on antitrust issues. Among his bar appointments, he has served as a senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal and of Antitrust Magazine, and as the chair of the ABA antitrust section's economics committee.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading international law firm with a network of 26 offices across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East providing a full range of legal services worldwide. Members of the firm's 250-strong ACT group are based in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Tokyo, Vienna and Washington, DC.