Derek Sutton is a member of the firm’s Antitrust, Competition, and Trade Regulation and Commercial Disputes practice groups, where he focuses on antitrust and complex commercial litigation.
Derek’s antitrust experience includes representing plaintiffs and defendants across a variety of industries in high-stakes cases involving all types of federal and state antitrust and unfair competition claims, including price-fixing, market allocation, bid-rigging, and monopolization. He has particular experience defending companies in class action and multidistrict litigation, as well as in enforcement actions brought by the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general.
Derek is also a member of the firm’s merger clearance practice, representing clients before the DOJ and FTC in all phases of merger review and advising on all aspects of the deal process including risk assessment, negotiations, due diligence, information exchanges, gun jumping, Second Request compliance, and integration planning.
In addition, Derek has considerable commercial litigation experience in federal and state courts, representing clients in a wide range of litigation including contract disputes, deal litigation, patent licensing disputes, and trade secrets litigation. He has substantial trial experience, with multiple cases being tried to verdict, as well as significant appellate experience in federal and state appellate courts throughout the country.
