Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Kathy Fenton has practiced antitrust law for more than 25 years and has represented clients such as Airlines Reporting Corporation, Bayer, CBS, Chevron, DIRECTV, Liberty Media, Procter & Gamble, R.J. Reynolds, SABMiller, and XM in mergers and acquisitions and on competitive issues before various federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Communications Commission.

Kathy is listed in The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2008), The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers (2008), and Who's Who in American Law. She is immediate past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, having served as chair in 2007-2008. She previously served the Antitrust Section as committee officer (2003-2005), secretary, publications officer, council member, and editorial chair of the Antitrust Law Journal. Kathy is a frequent lecturer and author on antitrust and competition issues.

Kathy is a member of Jones Day's Professional Services Committee and serves as chair of the Ethics Subcommittee. She also is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, where she previously has served as a member and chair of the Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee and of the Legal Ethics Committee. She has written and lectured on issues of professional responsibility, conflicts of interest, and legal ethics, including serving as an instructor on legal ethics for the D.C. Bar's New Admittees Course.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• General Antitrust Counseling
• Antitrust Mergers/Joint Ventures
• Antitrust Litigation
• Energy
• Energy Antitrust
• Energy/Utilities
• Airlines & Aviation
• Corporate Compliance Programs

Representative Cases

• $332 million acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Company
• A.D. Bedell Wholesale Co. v. Phillip Morris, 104 F. Supp. 2d 501 (W.D. Pa. 2000), aff’d, 263 F.3d 239 (3d Cir. 2001), cert denied, 534 U.S. 1081 (2002)
• Chase v. Northwest Airlines, 49 F. Supp. 2d 553 (E.D. Mich. 1999)
• Hall v. United Airlines, No. 7:00-CV-123-BR(1) (E.D.N.C.)
• In re Cigarette Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 1342, 2000 WL 1508296 (N.D. Ga. June 7, 2000)
• Westways World Travel v. Am. Airlines, No. CV-99-07689WDK (C.D. Cal., filed July 26, 1999)
• Acquisition by AOL
• Acquisition by AT&T
• Acquisition by Cemex
• Acquisition by Yellow Corporation
• Acquisition of AEI Music, Inc.
• Acquisition of Dex Media
• Acquisition of DirecTV from NewsCorp
• Acquisition of Gillette
• Acquisition of Hughes Electronics/DirecTV by News Corp
• Acquisition of P&H Solutions
• Acquisition of PowerLight Corporation
• Acquisition of Turner Broadcasting by Time Warner
• American Radio Systems Acquisition
• Cendant Transaction
• CILCORP Acquisition
• DiverseyLever Acquisition
• Formation of Reynolds American
• Gemstar Combination
• Gibson Greetings Acquisition
• Illinois Power Company Acquisition
• Infinity Broadcasting Acquisition
• Joint Venture
• Joint Venture with Intel
• Merger with American Electric Power
• Merger with PECO
• Merger with SIRIUS Satellite Radio
• Miller/Coors Joint Venture
• Sale of The Box to Viacom
• Singapore Joint Venture with Intel
• Time Warner Merger
• Unocal Acquisition
• Various Tower Company Acquisitions
• Viacom Transaction
• Wausau Medical Center Acquisition
• Wella Acquisition

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Complex Litigation, Deceptive Trade Practices, International Antitrust, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia

Education

• Georgetown University

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Price Squeeze Claim in Pacific Bell v. linkLine, 2009
• US Supreme Court to press price squeeze issues, IBA Competition Law International, p. 46 (This article was first published in the February 2009 issue of Competition Law International and is reproduced here with kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK ©), 2009
• Roundtable Discussion: Advice for the New Administration (Chair's Showcase Program, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, March 27, 2008), Antitrust Magazine, 2008
• Required Reading for the New Administration, Antitrust Source, 2008
• Roundtable Conference with Enforcement Officials, Antitrust Source, 2008
• Ethical Considerations in Settling Antitrust and Consumer Protection Disputes, The Antitrust Source, 2007
• Antitrust and the 2005 Supreme Court Term, 2005
• GM/Toyota:Twenty Years Later, The Antitrust Law Journal, No. 3, 2005
• Antitrust Compliance 101: The Bugle Sounds For Corporate Counsel, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, 2004
• New Antitrust Amendments May Have Significant Impact, 2004
• Ethical Implications of Lawyer Participation in Undercover Investigations and Other Covert Activities, Antitrust Magazine, 2003
• Inadvertent Disclosure of Privilege Materials to Opposing Counsel, Antitrust Magazine, 1999
• Antitrust Counseling on Group Buying Issues, Antitrust Magazine, 1998
• Legal Ethics and the Internet, Antitrust Magazine, 1997

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Washington, DC 20001-2113

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