Biography: Competition

Michael D Hausfeld, one of the country's top civil litigators, is the Chairman of Hausfeld LLP. His career has included some of the largest and most successful class actions in the fields of human rights, discrimination and antitrust law. Mr Hausfeld has a long record of successful litigation in the antitrust field, on behalf of individuals and classes, in cases involving monopolisation, tie-ins, exclusive dealings and price fixing. In 2011, he was named by the ABA as the co-chair of the civil redress task force. He is involved in ongoing investigations of antitrust cases abroad and pioneers private enforcement competition laws globally.

Mr Hausfeld has been featured in many articles and surveys. The National Law Journal has recognised him as one of the 'Top 100 Influential Lawyers in America' and the Legal Times named Mr Hausfeld among the top 30 'Visionaries' in the Washington legal community in 2008. The New York Times referred to Mr Hausfeld as one of the nation's 'most prominent antitrust lawyers,' and in 2009 the Washingtonian named him one of 30 'Stars of the Bar'. Mr Hausfeld is one of 30 negotiators profiled in Done Deal: Insights from Interviews with the World's Best Negotiators, by Michael Benoliel, EdD. He has been described by one of the country's leading civil rights columnists as an 'extremely penetrating lawyer' and by a colleague (in a Washington Post article) as a lawyer who 'has a very inventive mind when it comes to litigation. He thinks of things most lawyers don't because they have originality pounded out of them in law school'.