Wesley R. Powell

• Represented Atlas Holdings in its acquisition of the Snacks Division of TreeHouse Foods
• Lead counsel for defendant in In Re SSA Bonds Antitrust Litigation, pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Lead counsel to Silver Lake Management in defense against antitrust class-action challenging alleging joint bidding for acquisition of public companies, and related Department of Justice inquiry
• Represented Kaseya in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of Datto
• Represented Insight Partners and Payfactors in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of combination of Payfactors and Payscale
• Represented Resideo in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of its acquisition of First Alert
• Represented Atlas Holdings and Lakeside Book Company in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of their acquisition of Phoenix Color
• Represented Alleghany Corporation in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of its proposed sale of Berkshire Hathaway
• Represented Akorn Pharmaceuticals in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of sale of its consumer health business to Prestige Consumer Healthcare
• Represented ITE Management in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of its sale of American Railcar Industries to Greenbrier Companies
• Represent FFL Partners and Icynene-Lapolla in obtaining regulatory clearance of the sale of Icynene-Lapolla to Huntsman Corporation
• Represented Health Equity in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of its acquisition of WageWorks
• Represented Centerbridge in obtaining antitrust regulatory clearance of its acquisition of majority stake in Davis Vision

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP serves an antitrust world without borders with a well-integrated team of competition lawyers in the United States and Europe and with contacts throughout Asia and Latin America.

The leadership and excellence of our Antitrust Practice Group has been recognized by Chambers and Global Counsel for years. “It is a superb team” and a “greatly respected practice,” clients have reported.  “The attorneys are conscientious, systematic, hard-working and genuinely committed to winning.”  The group has “impressed clients with its depth of antitrust litigation experience” and is “well integrated” across offices and jurisdictions.  In Europe, with offices in Brussels, Paris, London and Frankfurt, we are “the name on everyone’s lips,” and are headed by “one of the leading figures” in the area.

Our antitrust team assists clients in expanding their businesses while minimizing legal risks.  We have represented a global client base in national and international merger filings, U.S. and European investigations of all forms of anticompetitive activity, class action and private litigation, and business ventures in multiple jurisdictions.  We have acted in a host of sectors, including financial services and consulting, business and financial information, media, e-commerce, hedge funds and private equity, pharmaceuticals, transports, energy, telecommunication, retail apparel, industrial and chemical manufacturing, and satellite communications.

Willkie is an elite international law firm of approximately 1,200 lawyers located in 13 offices in six countries. For more than 130 years, we have represented companies across a wide spectrum of businesses and industries.

The firm is comprised of attorneys who are recognized as some of the world’s foremost practitioners in their respective areas. Our work entails major transactions across a broad range of practices and disciplines, high-profile litigations and disputes, and regulatory counsel and support.

Our international experience is both deep and broad and our ability to provide sound judgment and sophisticated legal advice, coupled with significant knowledge of a region, ensures that clients seeking to conduct cross-border business get the maximum benefit from our vast experience. Willkie’s offices are located in Brussels, Chicago, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Rome, San Francisco and Washington.