Gerald Stein Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York

Gerald A. Stein is a partner in the Commercial Litigation and the Antitrust and Competition Groups in Norton Rose Fulbright's New York and Washington, DC offices. Gerald's comprehensive career as an antitrust litigator and as a former attorney with the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission enables him to represent and counsel clients in a full array of antitrust matters including state and federal litigation, class action and multidistrict litigation, merger and acquisition antitrust analysis, counseling, compliance, government investigations and federal and state antitrust enforcement proceedings in a wide variety of industries. Gerald has decades of litigation and counseling experience. As an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission for more than eight years, Gerald analyzed, investigated and litigated mergers and acquisitions and anticompetitive conduct in a broad variety of industries including health care products and services, pharmaceuticals, sporting goods, industrial equipment and retail merchandise. In private practice, Gerald has represented major corporations in all aspects of commercial litigation and private antitrust actions (including class actions and multidistrict litigation) involving alleged violations of Sherman Act Sections 1 and 2 regarding claims of price fixing, monopolization, boycotts, refusals to deal, and unfair and deceptive trade practices in various industries, including industrial chemicals, industrial ventilation systems, rental cars, air cargo, airline passengers, automotive filters, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. In addition to his litigation practice, Gerald counsels and represents major companies with respect to antitrust compliance and transactional work in a wide variety of industries including regional and national chain retail stores, waste management, heavy industry, medical devices, e-commerce platforms, fintech, hospital systems, and physician practice groups.

New York, New York

Gerald is a senior-level litigator with nearly twenty-five years of litigation and counseling experience. Before joining our firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice Group, Gerald was an attorney with the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission for more than eight years, where he investigated and litigated a variety of antitrust matters including mergers and acquisitions and anticompetitive conduct. Prior to that, while in private practice at other prominent law firms, he represented major corporations in all aspects of private antitrust actions (including class actions and multidistrict litigation) involving alleged violations of Sherman Act Sections 1 and 2 regarding claims of price fixing, monopolization, boycotts, refusals to deal, and unfair and deceptive trade practices in various industries, including industrial chemicals, industrial ventilation systems, rental cars, air cargo, airline passengers, automotive filters and healthcare. He has significant experience developing factual defenses, drafting and arguing motions, working with expert economists and taking depositions.

Adjunct Lecturer for Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining in Sports, Master’s of Science in Sports Business Degree Program at the New York University School of Professional Studies. This course examines the complex intersections of antitrust and labor laws with particular focus on the Big Four professional sports leagues. We examine the role of antitrust law in the context of labor relations in sports leagues, collective bargaining and player and owner discipline.

New York City

Reviewed and investigated proposed and consummated mergers in a variety of industries includinghealthcare, retail pharmacies, prescription eyeglass lenses, consumer product market research, information services, intellectual property, sporting goods, hospitals, physician practice groups, and laboratory testing services. Reviewed and investigated purported anti-competitive conduct under the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act and the FTC Act, including refusals to deal, exclusionary conduct and product tying. Conducted investigational hearings and interview market participants, including merging parties, customers and competitors, to develop factual bases for product and geographic market definitions, competitive effects and barriers to entry; collaborated with expert economists to analyze and develop market data; negotiated with opposing counsel to reach consent agreements. Initiated FTC internal procedures to issue compulsory process and to institute administrative proceedings. Prosecuted enforcement actions under Part 3 of the FTC Act, including preparing administrative complaints, declarations, discovery and motion practice. Participated as a panelist for numerous conferences involving privacy, advertising, and antitrust law. Organized and coordinated intern training programs.

Complex commercial litigation with a focus on antitrust litigation involving the defense of cartels and exclusive dealing.

General complex commercial litigation

Jd, Law

Ba, Political Science