Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Steve Harris practices antitrust law, including class actions and cartel and merger investigations, before U.S. and international courts and agencies. He also represents financial institutions in complex regulatory and commercial litigation. Steve has extensive experience in Asia and serves as the Firm's Asia competition law coordinator.

Steve handles civil and criminal antitrust litigation and cartel investigations in a broad range of industries, including financial institutions, pharmaceuticals, information technology, electronics, health care, consumer products, retail, and software. He also has represented major money-center banks in numerous cases against U.S. financial regulatory agencies. Recently, Steve represented a major Asian electronics manufacturer in class action antitrust litigation in California and, on appeal, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Steve also recently represented a European chemical manufacturer in the successful defense of a cartel investigation and in follow-on civil class action litigation in several U.S. federal district courts.

Steve is editor-in-chief and coauthor of the two-volume treatise Competition Laws Outside the United States, published by the American Bar Association. He has served as the international officer of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, as well as a member of its Council, as vice chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, and as a member of the International Bar Association Competition Law Committee. He speaks and writes frequently on antitrust topics. Steve is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the advisory board of the BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust Litigation
• Antitrust Intellectual Property
• Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation
• Latin America

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Complex Litigation, Copyrights, Deceptive Trade Practices, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Patents, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Georgia
• New York

Education

• Columbia University - New York

Published Works

• Recent Developments in the United States, EU and Asia at the Intersection of Antitrust and Patent Law, GCP Magazine, www.globalcompetitionpolicy.org, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: MOFCOM Requires Capacity Divesture for Mitsubishi Rayon to Acquire Lucite International, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: Coca-Cola / Huiyuan Deal is First Acquisition Blocked by China Antitrust Review, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: PRC Courts Beginning to Establish Procedural Framework for Anti-Monopoly Litigation, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: Korea Fair Trade Commission Announces Focus on Perceived Antitrust Abuses of Intellectual Property by IT and Pharmaceutical Companies, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: Korea Considers Antitrust Exemptions for Certain Cartels to Assist Economic Recovery, 2009
• China's Antitrust Agency Provides Insights into the Merger Review Process Under the New Anti-Monopoly Law, 2008
• International Licensing of Intellectual Property Rights: Issues Arising Under U.S., European and Japanese Competition Law, IP Perspectives, 2008
• The China Anti-Monopoly Law Becomes Effective, 2008
• New Merger Notification Thresholds Under the AML Published, 2008
• Filing Antitrust Suits in Chinese Court, 2008
• Structure and Responsibilities of Enforcement Agencies Under China Anti-Monopoly Law Clarified, 2008
• A new dawn for China?, IP Review, 2008
• New Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law, 2007

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Atlanta, GA 30309-3053

Phones

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