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"has the best understanding of not only how to build a case but also how to break it"  From Chambers USA/2007

"Brings to the table impressive economic knowledge - an important dimension that you don't always find elsewhere."  From Chambers USA/2006

John Harkrider is co-chair of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider’s antitrust practice.  His practice concentrates on mergers, counseling and litigation.  In the merger context, he advised Google with respect to its US$700 million acquisition of ITA, Thermo Fisher Scientific with respect to its US$2.1 billion acquisition of Dionex, Bemis Company with respect to its US$1.2 billion acquisition of the Food Americas’ assets of Alcan,  Ball Corporation in its US$577 million acquisition of the MCC assets from Anheuser-Busch InBev, Cingular with respect to its US$41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless, BellSouth with respect to its US$67 billion acquisition by AT&T and Omnicare with respect to its US$1.9 billion acquisition of NeighborCare.  In litigation, Mr. Harkrider  represents George’s in a challenge by the Department of Justice of its acquisition of assets from Tyson Foods, Omnicare with respect to its Section One conspiracy claims against United Health in both the Northern District of Illinois and the Seventh Circuit, United Technologies in Walker Process and monopolization claims in Northern District of Illinois and District of Maryland and SunGard Data Systems in the District of Columbia against a challenge by the Department of Justice to enjoin its acquisition of Comdisco.   In counseling, he has advised MasterCard’s Board of Directors with respect to their IPO as well as the Board of Directors of a major European air cargo company with respect to possible criminal liability.

Mr. Harkrider has written and spoken extensively on antitrust as the lead editor of a handbook on Econometrics in Antitrust, published by the ABA.  He is also the author of a number of articles, including  Obama:  The First Year, ANTITRUST, Summer 2010; Lessons from the Great Depression, ANTITRUST, Spring 2009;Antitrust Enforcement During the Bush Administration, An Econometric Estimation, ANTITRUST, Summer 2008; Exporting Antitrust Law to China, Global Competition Review, February 2006; Risk-Shifting Provisions and Antitrust Risk: An Empirical Examination, ANTITRUST, Fall 2005; and Sophistication Snag, The Deal, January 17, 2005,.   He has  regularly appeared as an antitrust commentator on CNBC, Fox and BBC America.

Mr. Harkrider joined The Hon. John D. Bates, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Thomas O. Barnett, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, and Margaret Guerin-Calvert, former Assistant Chief of the Economic Regulatory Section at the Antitrust Division, in 2004 in delivering remarks at the prestigious Milton Handler Annual Antitrust Review sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Harkrider is recommended by Chambers USA as well as Global Competition as a leading antitrust lawyer.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York

Articles & Newsletters

• Obama: The First Year, ANTITRUST, Summer 2010
• Lessons from the Great Depression, ANTITRUST, Spring 2009
• Antitrust Enforcement During the Bush Administration, ANTITRUST, Summer 2008
• Exporting Antitrust Law to China, Global Competition Review, February 2006
• Operationalizing the Hypothetical Monopolist Test
• Risk-Shifting Provisions and Antitrust Risk: An Empirical Examination, ANTITRUST, a publication of ABA Section of Anitrust Law, Fall 2005
• Sophistication Snag, The Deal, January 17, 2005
• Proving Anticompetitive Impact: Moving Past Merger Guidelines Presumptions, 2004 Milton Handler Antitrust Review, 2005 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 317, 2005
• Resolving Complex Antitrust Cases Promptly, Icarus, a publication of ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Summer 2002

Professional Activities

• Editorial Board, ANTITRUST, 2007 - present
• American Bar Association, Vice-Chair, Economics Committee of Antitrust Section, 2003 - 2006
• New York State Bar Association
• New York City Bar Association