


John D. Harkrider
John Harkrider is a Partner at Axinn in New York. As a founding member of Axinn, he has worked on a variety of large cases over the past two decades, including the recreation of AT&T (representing BellSouth in its acquisition by AT&T, and Cingular in its acquisition by AT&T Wireless), the antitrust analysis of Standard Essential Patents (representing Google in both its acquisition of Motorola Mobility as well as the FTC’s investigation into Google and Motorola’s use of Standard Essential Patents). He represented Google in its acquisition of ITA Software as well as NEST. He has acted as global coordinating counsel on some of the largest cross-border transactions, including Thermo Fisher’s $13.2 billion acquisition of Life Technologies, Ball’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Rexam PLC, and Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC. He has also litigated in a number of merger challenges against the Government (SunGard/Comdisco, Tyson/George’s and Omnicare/Pharmerica), for the Government (including WorldCom’s attempted acquisition of Sprint), and against private parties (Stanley/Newell and Vantico/Apollo). And he has also argued a number of Sherman Act cases, including SawStop on behalf of Stanley Black and Decker, and the Growers Antitrust Litigation on behalf of Tyson.
Distinctions
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Mergers
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Cross-Border Issues
Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers
Winner, 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Intellectual Property
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This first volume of Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum gathers original essays that pay tribute to the exceptional career of Judge Ginsburg. Known in the legal community as a “giant in antitrust (...)

Concurrences Review in partnership with the Global Antitrust Institute of the Law & Economics Center held the Global Antitrust Economics Conference at George Mason University School of Law on (...)

The United States does not seem to have developed the tradition of liber amicorum in the legal profession. This book is, therefore, an extremely successful, not to say "masterstroke". The (...)