Profile: Michael G Egge

Competition

Biography: Competition

Mr Egge focuses on antitrust transactional, cartel, litigation and counselling issues. He has extensive experience representing corporate clients in sensitive merger and joint venture matters before the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and regularly represents clients in cartel-related investigations and litigation. Mr Egge has broad international antitrust experience, participating in antitrust proceedings before the European Commission and competition law enforcement authorities in Spain, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Mexico, Lithuania, Costa Rica and Venezuela.

Over the past 17 years, Mr Egge's antitrust work has covered a wide range of industries, including specialty chemicals, software, textile, television broadcasting, automotive, construction materials, industrial ceramics, steel, banking, beer, soft drinks, pharmaceuticals, memory chips, glass, fertilisers, electricity, paper, telecommunications, commercial aircraft manufacturing, medical devices and food products. Mr Egge has steered numerous antitrust sensitive transactions through the HSR review process, successfully addressing agency concerns and avoiding further investigation and delay. Recent experience over the course of the past two years includes representing clients in protracted 'Second Request' merger investigations and consent decree matters before the Federal Trade Commission, defending clients in criminal price-fixing investigations by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, securing amnesty or leniency positions in the United States and Europe, defending clients in multiple and direct actions, and counselling clients on antitrust compliance risks in the United States and elsewhere.

Mr Egge currently serves as co-chair of Latham's global antitrust and competition practice group. He is also an active contributor to the US antitrust bar leadership, currently serving as co-chair of the ABA's section of antitrust law annual spring meeting.