Alert 12.12.24
A General Counsel’s Guide to the New HSR Rules
As of February 10, 2025, the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification rules will require significantly more compliance work from transacting parties.
Drew Navikas helps clients strengthen their businesses by navigating complex antitrust and competition law challenges before global enforcement agencies and in private litigation.
Drew’s practice covers the full spectrum of antitrust issues, including global merger clearance, government investigations and litigation. He particularly enjoys proactively using antitrust law to achieve his clients’ strategic objectives, whether by going to court as a plaintiff or presenting complaints to global antitrust enforcers. He also brings a pragmatic sensibility to antitrust risk assessment and compliance training design, informed by his experience representing clients in a variety of industries including semiconductors, financial services, health care, digital platforms and blockchain software.
Representative Experience
- Represented leading telemedicine provider in litigation against state licensing board, winning a preliminary injunction against the board’s anticompetitive rules and negotiating a resolution to the case through revisions to the state’s laws.
- Represented major telecommunications carrier in successfully moving to dismiss, and defeating on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, claims that the carrier and its competitors colluded to include anticompetitive features in MMS technology.
- Jointly advised global software developer and logistics company regarding antitrust issues arising in creation of blockchain software collaboration, including joint venture structuring and global antitrust filing requirements.
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- Obtained unconditional merger clearance for semiconductor industry supplier in merger valued at over $800 million.
- Advised leading data analytics software provider in negotiations to design and operate an information exchange platform for use in the commercial airline industry, developing structural and contractual measures to mitigate antitrust risks.
- Represented global financial services provider in presenting complaints to antitrust enforcers in the U.S. and Europe that a competitor was engaged in unilateral anticompetitive conduct.
- Represented supplier in semiconductor industry presenting complaints to antitrust enforcers in the U.S., Europe, South Korea and China regarding monopolization
Professional Highlights
- Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (published by BL Rankings LLC) for Antitrust Law (2023 – 2025) and Commercial Litigation (2024 – 2025)
Education
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J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 2010
with high honors, Order of the Coif, the University of Chicago Law ReviewB.A., The George Washington University, 2005
magna cum laude
Admissions
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District of Columbia
Clerkships
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Law clerk to the Hon. Raymond C. Fisher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2010-11