George S. Cary
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Washington)
Lawyer (Partner)
George S. Cary is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Cary’s practice focuses on antitrust counseling and litigation. Before joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Cary served as Deputy Director of the United States Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, responsible for merger enforcement. Prior to 1995, Mr. Cary was an antitrust and litigation partner at the Los Angeles firm of Irell & Manella. Since joining Cleary Gottlieb, Mr. Cary has represented companies in many industry-transforming mergers and acquisitions. Among other matters, Mr. Cary represented The Dow Chemical Company in its acquisition of Union Carbide, the largest merger in the chemical industry; Time Warner in its merger with AOL, at the time the largest merger in history; SmithKline Beecham in its merger with Glaxo Wellcome, at the time the largest pharmaceutical merger; and Conoco in its merger with Phillips Petroleum, creating the largest petroleum refining and marketing company in the U.S. Most recently he represented Western Digital in its $4.8 billion acquisition of Hitachi’s hard drive business; Deutsche Telekom in its proposed $39 billion sale of T-Mobile USA to AT&T; Google in its $750 million acquisition of AdMob; and The Dow Chemical Company in its $18 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas.
Distinctions
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Asian Antitrust. Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers. Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers. Winner, 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Asian Antitrust. Nominee, 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Linked authors
Matthew I. Bachrack
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Hong Kong)
Sam Bagot
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (London)
Nowell D. Bamberger
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Washington)
Stephan Barthelmess
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Brussels)
Pascale Bibi
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (New York)
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Articles
7900 Bulletin
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The New York state Senate has passed the “Twenty-First Century Antitrust Act” (S. 933) to amend its state antitrust law, radically changing the risks of doing business in New York. It ostensibly aims at so-called “Big Tech,” but applies to all businesses, even those having very little contact with (...)
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On April 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Federal Trade Commission’s decision that Impax Laboratories entered an anticompetitive “reverse payment” settlement with Endo Pharmaceuticals. This case was the FTC’s first fully litigated reverse payment case since the (...)
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On April 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Federal Trade Commission’s decision that Impax Laboratories entered an anticompetitive “reverse payment” settlement with Endo Pharmaceuticals. This case was the FTC’s first fully litigated reverse payment case since the (...)
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On December 22, 2020, the US Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) issued a Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement. This follows the recent issuance of revised Vertical Merger Guidelines published jointly by the FTC and Department of Justice (the “Agencies”) on June 30, 2020. While the Guidelines (...)
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to extreme demand and price volatility for certain products, as well as fluctuations in firms’ costs. As firms struggle to manage these changes, agencies are aggressively seeking to show they are preventing consumer exploitation—for example, as a result of (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. 2016 marks the eighth year of the implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”), which entrusted the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) in China with the authority (...)
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While the globalization of antitrust—something for which Chairman Kovacic deserves significant credit—has brought competitive markets to consumers worldwide, it has also given jurisdictions around the world significant influence over the conduct of increasingly global firms. In the merger (...)
Books
Price
290€00
2018 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
This 3rd edition of the Competition Law Digest provides a synthesis of EU and national leading antitrust cases from 1990 to 2016. The book is structured in two parts: Part I deals with (...)
Date
7 September 2017
Price
290€00
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120€00
Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Countries: Featuring Africa, Brazil, China, India, Mexico - Conference Papers 2nd Edition
Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Countries: Featuring Africa, Brazil, China, India, Mexico - Conference Papers 2nd Edition On October 23, 2015, Concurrences Journal in partnership with New (...)
Date
1 June 2016
Price
120€00
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215€00
William E. Kovacic: An Antitrust Tribute Liber Amicorum Vol. II
In the wake of William E. Kovacic Liber Amicorum -An Antitrust Tribute - Volume I, this Volume II provides, in the European tradition of Liber Amicorum, 27 contributions from 37 prominent authors (...)
Date
9 September 2014
Price
215€00
