Anthony P. Badaracco

Anthony focuses his practice on antitrust law and business litigation and counseling. He helps clients obtain clearance from the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission for mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures and provides comprehensive pre-integration counsel in connection with transactions. He also works with counsel in many other jurisdictions to obtain clearance of cross-border transactions. He has successfully defended clients in civil conduct reviews by federal and state enforcement agencies as well as in criminal investigations. He has experience working with clients in the telecommunications, financial services, advertising, agriculture, food and beverage, healthcare, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries, among others.

In court and in alternative dispute resolution settings, Anthony has won massive, bet-the-company disputes as well as much narrower ones. He has substantial first-chair experience in all phases of civil litigation—from pleadings through discovery, trial, and appeal—and he has helped clients achieve favorable settlements in several matters. He has handled cases in several federal district courts and in all levels of the New York state court system and has won appeals in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits. As an associate, he served as a core part of a trial team that secured a groundbreaking antitrust jury verdict, following nearly seven months of trial, for an independent provider of maintenance services for telephone equipment in the District of New Jersey. In addition to antitrust, he has litigated a broad range of business tort, contract, fraud, false advertising, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, and professional liability matters in court and in arbitration.

Anthony also serves as outside general counsel to industry trade associations, regularly provides antitrust compliance counseling and training to other associations, corporations, and cooperatives, and assists clients with designing and implementing product distribution and resale pricing policies. He particularly enjoys working creatively with clients to grow their businesses while spotting and avoiding competition-related risks.

Anthony serves as the head of the Firm’s Trial Group in the New York office.

Anthony has published numerous articles on antitrust and litigation-related topics and has served since 2021 as the U.S. law reporter for the European Competition Law Review.