Daniel S. Bitton

Associate

Daniel Bitton is an associate in the New York office.  During his time with the firm, he has been involved in all aspects of the firm’s antitrust practice, including mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and counseling.  Mr. Bitton has also represented clients in complex intellectual property litigations. 

Mr. Bitton has assisted clients in government merger investigations, among others, in the telecommunications, institutional pharmacy, video game retail, and rent-to own industries.  He has experience analyzing the competitive effects of proposed mergers and acquisitions in those and various other industries, including steel, medical devices, cable, book retail, and automotive.  In addition, Mr. Bitton has experience coordinating responses to second requests, subpoenas and civil investigative demands issued by the Department of Justice, the FTC or state enforcers.  Mr. Bitton also has experience coordinating the notification of international acquisitions in multiple jurisdictions. 

Mr. Bitton has litigated antitrust and intellectual property matters in the Southern District of New York and the District of Connecticut, including a Sherman and Clayton Act matter on behalf of a client in the film exhibition industry; a trade dress infringement and dilution matter on behalf of a client in the pharmaceutical industry; and a trademark, copyright and Sherman Act matter on behalf of a client in the barcode scanner-integrated data capture and management systems industry. 

Mr. Bitton has also provided antitrust advice to numerous clients regarding Sherman Act and other antitrust compliance issues.

Prior to joining AV&H, from 2001 through 2003, Mr. Bitton served as an advisor to the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority and the Netherlands Competition Authority, in The Hague, The Netherlands.  In that capacity, he was involved in matters regarding bid-rigging, output restrictions, and monopolization, as well as various regulatory matters, including disputes about fixed and mobile interconnection rates, cable-access, and local loop unbundling. 

During his studies at New York University School of Law, Mr. Bitton interned at the Federal Trade Commission, where he worked on the North Texas Specialty Physicians price-fixing litigation.

Bar & Court Admissions

• New York

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 2004 LL.M. Honors: Recipient Stibbe Scholarship, 2003; Recipient Noorthey Scholarship, 2003.
• University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, California Visiting Student, 2000.
• Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001 M.A. in Netherlands Law; Honors: Recipient Globe Scholarship, 2000; National Administrative Law Moot Court, 3rd place, 1998.

Publications

• Het voorstel van de Commissie voor schikkingen in kartelzaken (The European Commission's Proposal For Settlement Procedures In Cartel Cases), Actualiteiten Mededingingsrecht 2008, pp. 17-21, Barbara Nijs & Daniel S. Bitton, Sdu Uitgevers

• Amerikaans Hooggerechtshof maakt het brengen van antitrust claims hoogdrempeliger (U.S. Supreme Court Raises Pleading Standards for Antitrust Claims), Actualiteiten Mededingingsrecht 2007, pp. 141-44, Daniel S. Bitton, Sdu Uitgevers

• Discovery, Treble Damages en Class Actions: wil de EG wetshandhaving door bounty hunters? (Discovery, Treble Damages en Class Actions: does the EU want law enforcement by bounty hunters?), Actualiteiten Mededingingsrecht 2006, pp. 94-100, Daniel S. Bitton, Sdu Uitgevers
• Telecommunicatiewet niet van toepassing op indirecte interconnectie (Netherlands Telecommunications Act Fails to Regulate Indirect Interconnection), Actualiteiten Mededingingsrecht 2003, pp. 107-09, Daan Bitton, Sdu Uitgevers     
• Telecommunicatierecht in beweging (Recent Developments in Netherlands Telecommunications Law), Actualiteiten Mededingingsrecht 2003, pp. 76-82, Daan Bitton & Robbert Mahler, Sdu Uitgevers  

Professional Activities

• New York City Bar Association, Secretary of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee