Samer M. Musallam is a veteran antitrust enforcer who led major merger investigations across a range of industries as a former Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Samer’s practice focuses on antitrust merger advocacy in strategic and private equity transactions and also representing and counseling clients through all phases of litigation before the DOJ and FTC. Samer has represented clients in complex private litigation, price‑fixing class actions, merger clearances, monopolization lawsuits, dealer termination suits, and domestic and international antitrust investigations. His experiences cover a wide range of industries, including medical devices, banking, airlines, telecommunications, fintech, wireless baseband chips, mining and material handling equipment, industrial materials and the locomotive and railroad industries. While at the Antitrust Division, Samer served as litigation and trial counsel in a number of the Antitrust Division’s most high-profile matters in the past decade. He recently served as lead trial counsel and first chair in the DOJ’s successful challenge to the merger of leading automotive aluminum autobody sheet suppliers in United States v. Novelis Inc. and Aleris Corp. That case was the first use of arbitration by the Antitrust Division to resolve a merger dispute. Notably, Samer also served as trial counsel for the DOJ in opposing the proposed merger of two of the largest insurance companies in the United States in United States v. Aetna, Inc. and Humana Inc. The case resulted in verdict and judgment in the United States’ favor. In recognition of his achievements at the Antitrust Division, Samer was honored with numerous DOJ awards. Prior to joining the Antitrust Division, Samer was in private practice as an antitrust lawyer in Washington, D.C., where he represented and counseled clients through all phases of litigation, merger review, and pricing and distribution practices before the DOJ and FTC.
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As spring gives way to summer, the first “green shoots” signaling the willingness of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to credit compliance programs have emerged. For the first time ever, the Division has awarded a company sentencing credit for implementing an effective (...)
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