Speakers
ANTHONY COLEY
2024 Keynote Speaker
As a trusted adviser to Treasury secretaries, CEOs, and other prominent leaders, Anthony has shaped public opinion and communications on some of our nation’s most significant debates and challenges.
During the first two years of the Biden Administration, he led public affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice and served as Attorney General Merrick Garland’s chief spokesman. He also oversaw national media relations for the Justice Department’s litigating divisions, law enforcement components, and U.S. Attorney offices, among others. At the end of Anthony’s tenure, Attorney General Garland presented him with the Edmund J. Randolph Award – the Justice Department’s highest honor.
Prior, he served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Affairs. There he worked in close collaboration with President Barack Obama’s economic team to create and implement public affairs strategies on issues related to capital markets, banks, non-bank financial institutions, and the 2011 debt limit crisis. Anthony traveled extensively at the Treasury Department, advising senior officials and briefing journalists on more than 30 trips in the U.S. and around the world. At the end of his service, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew presented him with Treasury’s Distinguished Service Award and medal.
Previously, Anthony spent five years as Executive Vice President, Communications, at Managed Funds Association (MFA), the global trade association for the alternative investment industry. He also served as Senior Advisor to MFA’s President and CEO, former Republican Congressman Richard H. Baker. Prior, he advised Fortune 500 companies, trade associations, and other clients as a Director at Brunswick Group.
Earlier in his career, Anthony concurrently served as Communications Director and chief spokesman for U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. He was also a top communications aide to U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Jr., U.S. Senator Zell Miller, and U.S. Senator Jon S. Corzine. In the New Jersey Statehouse, Anthony was press secretary to the Governor and later Director of Public Communications for the State. He has also worked on the communications staff of two presidential campaigns: Gore-Lieberman 2000 and Kerry-Edwards 2004.
Currently, Anthony is an on-air contributor at NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC, providing independent analysis of the leading political, legal, and economic issues of the day. Through his boutique public affairs firm, Corner Office Strategies, he provides senior-level counsel to decision-makers and organizations facing high-profile moments or critical public affairs challenges.
Anthony received a B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College and an M.A. in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University.
OUR PANELISTS
Teisha Johnson
Partner
Baker McKenzie
Teisha specializes in antitrust investigations and eDiscovery matters. With a robust background in US and international antitrust law, she routinely leads cross-border teams in investigations of proposed mergers, and responses to international investigations and discovery requests. She also advises clients on all aspects of the antitrust regulatory process, including representing clients in matters before the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, as well as in civil and criminal investigations before federal and state authorities. Additionally, Teisha regularly counsels clients in consumer protection matters, including allegations of unfair and deceptive practices brought under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
Robert Keeling
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
Robert Keeling’s practice focuses on eDiscovery matters. Robert is the founder and co-chair of Sidley’s eDiscovery and Data Analytics Group. He represents companies across a range of industries in civil litigation and government investigations, with a focus on managing discovery for antitrust litigations and HSR “Second Requests” issued by the DOJ or FTC. Robert has been responsible for achieving substantial compliance with Second Requests in connection with transactions with a combined value of more than $225 billion. Robert is a published author and frequent speaker on topics relating to eDiscovery, information governance, machine learning, and the attorney-client privilege.
Kristen Limarzi
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Kristen Limarzi is an antitrust partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a top enforcement official in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, where, as Section Chief, she helped shape and implement the agency’s enforcement priorities and policies for mergers and other business practices across industries. Recognized as “Dealmaker of the Year” for 2023 by Global Competition Review, Kristen leverages her experience as a government enforcer to represent clients in merger and non-merger investigations before the DOJ, FTC, and foreign antitrust enforcers, as well in as appellate and civil litigation.
Llew Davis
Associate General Counsel, Competition
Meta
Llew Davis is Associate General Counsel for Competition and Regulatory at Meta and advises on a wide range of issues. Prior to Meta, Llew was an attorney at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where he investigated and litigated conduct and mergers in a variety of industries, including semiconductors, tech, and healthcare. He also worked in the antitrust group of Morrison and Foerster in Washington, D.C.
Meredith Mommers
Counsel
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Meredith Mommers is a counsel in the antitrust group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She represents clients on a range of antitrust issues relating to the US merger control and review process, multijurisdictional merger control, civil antitrust litigation, consumer protection, and investigations before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She has worked on a range of complex, cross border matters for companies across numerous industries, including technology, industrials and manufacturing. Currently, she is leading an advising a US technology company on an in-depth merger investigation in connection with an ongoing multi-billion-dollar acquisition.
Jeane Thomas
Partner
Crowell & Moring
Jeane Thomas is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Antitrust and Competition and Privacy and Cybersecurity Groups, and co-chair of the firm’s eDiscovery & Information Management Practice. Jeane is engaged in all types of antitrust representations, including mergers and joint ventures, class and other civil litigation, and civil and criminal government investigations. She also counsels clients on a broad range of antitrust issues, including intellectual property and licensing issues, trade association law, the Hart Scott Rodino Act, and pricing and distribution issues. She has focused extensively on the telecommunications, media, digital technologies, chemicals, agriculture and healthcare/pharmaceuticals industries.
Kail Jethmalani
Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
Kail Jethmalani is a partner with Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP in New York City. He represents clients across industries in all areas of antitrust law, including high-stakes litigation, domestic and cross-border mergers, and investigations. Named a Future Leader in Competition in North America by Who’s Who Legal in 2021 and 2022, clients rely on Kail’s pragmatic approach to advancing cohesive defense strategies as coordinating counsel in multidistrict litigation. In the M&A sphere, Kail has recently represented Cummins Inc. in multiple transactions and a hospitality company in its proposed hostile acquisition of a rival.
Harsha Kurpad
Antitrust eDiscovery Counsel
Latham & Watkins LLP
Harsha Kurpad draws on a large breadth of technical and legal knowledge, including at the cutting edge of Technology Assisted Review, to efficiently and effectively address clients’ eDiscovery needs. He has extensive experience managing eDiscovery for Second Requests and investigations involving the DOJ and FTC. Harsha operationalizes workflows to set clients up for success, address potential pitfalls early, leverages industry-leading tools, and manages issues efficiently. He collaborates across the firm’s renowned Litigation & Trial Department, enacting lessons learned and developing best practices during complex eDiscovery matters, including those with a global nexus.
Alexander Okuliar
Co-Chair Global Antitrust Law Practice Group
Morrison Foerster
Alex Okuliar is Co-Chair of Morrison Foerster’s Global Antitrust Law Practice Group. He is the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Antitrust Enforcement at the U.S. DOJ and a former advisor at the FTC. Alex’s practice spans merger review, civil litigation, and criminal investigations. Over his twenty-five-year career, Alex has worked on a thousand deals. He has deep experience guiding clients through the complex global merger clearance process and has litigated agency merger challenges through trial. His understanding of the agency processes from the inside allows him to offer advice to clients navigating merger and conduct investigations.
Ausra Deluard
Partner
Dentons
Ausra is Co-Chair of the US Competition and Antitrust group at Dentons and she also teaches antitrust as an adjunct professor at UC School of Law – SF. Ausra is committed to effectively and cost-efficiently helping clients across a broad range of industries to get their deal done, handle investigations, and navigate antitrust risk in commercial strategy and decision making. She delivers tailored and succinct advice to help clients find solutions and limit antitrust risk relating to a wide array of issues.
Amanda Norton
AVP – Senior Legal Counsel
AT&T
For more than a decade, Amanda has been advising clients on a wide range of antitrust and competition issues. Her practice has focused on securing antitrust clearances and navigating regulatory requirements associated with complex transactions, but her docket also includes antitrust compliance, business counseling, policy work, and litigation. Her antitrust career began at the FTC, where she was an honors paralegal. After spending almost ten years in private practice, Amanda joined the antitrust team at AT&T in 2022 where she currently serves as an Assistant Vice President.
Larry Reicher
Deputy General Counsel
Hopper
Larry Reicher joined Hopper earlier this year as the Deputy General Counsel where he oversees legal advice for the company’s fintech business, in addition to leading on issues of strategic regulatory and competitive concern. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Emory University School of Law. He began his career in New York City with two international law firms. In 2016, he joined DOJ’s telecom section as a trial attorney before joining the front office as Counsel to the AAG and then a role as inaugural chief of the Division’s Office of Decree Enforcement and Compliance.
Heather Greenfield
Partner
White & Case
Heather Greenfield is a partner in the Global Antitrust/Competition Practice of White & Case. Heather has extensive experience representing clients in all phases of merger clearance before the FTC and DOJ, and before federal courts in litigated challenges by the government. Clients also benefit from Heather’s significant experience on compliance related to the HSR Act and global merger notification requirements, including in Europe, Asia, and South America. As reported by The Legal 500 US, clients said Heather is “incredibly bright, and always finds solutions to unique problems” and further acclaimed she is “dedicated, sharp, calm.”
CJ Mahoney
Counsel and Global Head of eDiscovery & Litigation Technology
Cleary Gottlieb
CJ Mahoney’s practice focuses on eDiscovery, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and information governance. As counsel, CJ leads the eDiscovery and Litigation Technology group in the United States. He advises clients on defensible data retention, preservation, collection, review, and production processes for antitrust, securities enforcement, and litigation matters. He also trains Cleary attorneys and co-counsel on discovery-related issues with a focus on both information governance and artificial intelligence, including predictive coding, and speaks externally on these issues.
Franco Castelli
Counsel, Antitrust
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Franco Castelli joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Antitrust Department in 2005. He focuses on analysis of competition issues in U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Mr. Castelli has represented clients before the FTC, the U.S. DOJ, and the European Commission, as well as other antitrust regulatory agencies. He has worked on transactions involving a wide variety of industries, most recently representing companies in the high-tech, financial information services, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and chemical industries. Mr. Castelli has served as a guest lecturer on antitrust law at the Law School of the University of Milan, Italy.
John Goheen
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP
John Goheen is a partner in Goodwin’s Antitrust and Competition practice and Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. He advises clients on matters involving all aspects of antitrust and competition law, including merger reviews, government antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and counseling on a variety of competition issues. He regularly represents clients in antitrust investigations by the FTC, DOJ, and state attorneys general, and has experience counseling clients across a wide range of industries, including technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, consumer products, retail, infrastructure, industrials and manufacturing, and business and professional services.
Melanie Kiser
Senior Counsel – Competition & Regulatory
Melanie Kiser is Senior Counsel for Competition & Regulatory at LinkedIn, where she handles a range of global antitrust and competition matters, including business counseling, regulatory inquiries, and compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act. She began her career as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where she investigated and litigated proposed mergers and other civil antitrust matters, and later counseled and represented clients on a range of competition issues and transactions at Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP.
Katherine Reilly
Senior Lead Counsel, M&A and Governance, and Assistant Corporate Secretary
Vistra
Haylee Barney
Senior Director, Antitrust Practice Group
TransPerfect Legal
Haylee Barney is the Senior Director, Antitrust Practice Group, Project Management at TransPerfect Legal. She has 15 years of experience in the eDiscovery and legal technology industry at both law firms and vendors. She began her career as an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP in New York City, before moving to Crowe & Dunlevy, a large regional firm in Oklahoma. She has been with legal technology vendors for the past 7 years. Haylee specializes in eDiscovery project management in the antitrust and merger clearance space where she leads a team of antitrust project management specialists.
Daniel Meyers
President, Consulting & Information Governance
TransPerfect Legal
Dan Meyers is the President of TransPerfect Legal’s consulting division. Dan advises clients on best practices for deploying legal technology to streamline litigations, investigations and regulatory proceedings, including for eDiscovery and cross-border data transfers. His clients range from financial institutions and multinational corporations to start-ups and small-to-medium businesses. Dan is certified as an eDiscovery Specialist (ACEDS) and an Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E/C/US). Prior to joining TransPerfect, Dan was a commercial litigation Partner at an Am Law 100 law firm and the Founder and Chair of the firm’s eDiscovery & Information Governance practice group. Dan’s commercial litigation practice covered a wide range of complex business disputes before federal and state courts, including cross-border, corporate governance, antitrust, securities, breach of contract, and business tort cases.
Kim Whitehead
Senior Director, Antitrust Practice Group
TransPerfect Legal
Kim Whitehead is Senior Director of the Antitrust Practice Group, overseeing the Managed Review division and advancing the overall strategy of the Antitrust division. Kim has 15 years of serving as an advisor to global law firms and Fortune 500 corporations in complex matters ranging from discrete internal corporate analyses and pre-investigation scoping to large, expedited government requests. With an end-from-the-beginning approach, Kim guides clients in holistically preparing for managed review and production outputs at the inception of the matter, alongside forensics and processing discussions. She’s an expert in administering large-scale reviews with in-person and remote teams domestically and internationally.
Michael Kriegal
Vice President, Consulting Services & Antitrust Practice Group
TransPerfect Legal
Michael Kriegal is the Vice President of Technical Consulting based in New York, bringing over 10 years of experience to the role. He has overseen numerous Second Requests, leveraging advanced consultative approaches in areas like TAR, analytics, translation, and emerging data types. Michael’s teams are dedicated to developing and onboarding cutting-edge technologies that enhance client efficiency, while also fostering cross-team collaboration to drive internal optimization. His expertise ensures that clients benefit from tailored solutions and seamless integration of innovative tools.
Brittany Field
Senior Director, APG & Consulting Services
TransPerfect Legal
Brittany Field joined TransPerfect in 2011 and is currently a Senior Director of Consulting in TransPerfect Legal’s Antitrust Practice Group. Brittany has first-hand experience in all stages of eDiscovery, including processing, analytics, review, and production. Brittany has a Master’s Degree in Data Analytics and advises clients on a number of topics ranging from search term analysis to mobile message review, TAR and AI workflows. She currently focuses on consulting clients on how to best utilize AI and analytics for large and complex matters, such as Second Requests.
Shaun Vodde
Senior Vice President, Forensic Technology & Consulting
TransPerfect Legal
Shaun Vodde is the Senior Vice President of Forensic Technology and Consulting Operations, based out of the Washington, D.C. office of TransPerfect Legal. Shaun has more than two decades of international technology, forensic investigation, and litigation support experience. He has executed large-scale forensic collections, investigations, and eDiscovery engagements throughout Europe, the Middle-East, Asia, Africa, North Central and South America. His comprehensive skill set starts with a network engineering background and service on a U.S. National Incident Response Team. Shaun has extensive Second Request experience.
