Gerald Stein

Background

About Gerald Stein

Gerald A. Stein is a partner in the Commercial Litigation and the Antitrust and Competition Groups in Davis Wright Tremaine'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.