William Kolasky Email & Phone Number

Partner in the Washington, DC, office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, where I am chair of the Antitrust practice with nearly 40 years of experience across the full range of antitrust litigation and counseling. I regularly represent clients in antitrust litigation before courts all over the country and in criminal and civil investigations before both the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. I have secured antitrust clearance for more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, and have coordinated merger reviews in jurisdictions around the world. I also regularly counsel clients about antitrust aspects of business arrangements, ranging from joint ventures to distribution arrangements. In 2013, I received the Global Competition Review's Lifetime Achievement Award for my accomplishments in private practice, government service and antitrust scholarship.I served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. While there, I was one of the architects of the International Competition Network, a network of over 100 competition authorities worldwide designed to promote greater international cooperation and convergence among those authorities. I have also taught antitrust law at American University's Washington College of Law.