Bernard Nigro Returns To Fried Frank As An Antitrust Partner In The Washington, Dc Office

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MEDIA RELEASE PR35942


Bernard Nigro Returns to Fried Frank as an Antitrust Partner in the Washington, DC

Office


NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --


    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Bernard

"Barry" Nigro will return to the Firm as a partner in the Antitrust

Department resident in Washington, DC. Mr. Nigro was previously a partner at

Fried Frank from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Nigro served as the

Deputy Director for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition,

where he supervised merger and non-merger enforcement divisions and developed

agency policies related to compliance, merger and non-merger matters, and

pre-merger notification. During his tenure at the Federal Trade Commission,

Mr. Nigro oversaw numerous merger investigations and litigations across a

broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, defense, energy, music,

tobacco, consumer products, and aerospace. Immediately prior to rejoining

Fried Frank, Mr. Nigro was an antitrust partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher

LLP in their Washington, DC office.


    "We are very pleased to welcome Barry back to Fried Frank. He is an

extremely experienced and highly regarded antitrust practitioner with a

strong background of both private and government service," said Valerie Ford

Jacob, Fried Frank's Chairperson.


    Mr. Nigro's practice focuses on civil and criminal matters under federal

and state antitrust laws and he frequently appears before the Federal Trade

Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and state

attorney general offices. As part of Fried Frank's Antitrust Department, Mr.

Nigro will represent major US and international corporations on antitrust

matters in connection with mergers and acquisitions, internal investigations,

litigations, and counseling.


    "Antitrust and competition issues are integral to the broad range of

corporate clients Fried Frank represents," said Justin Spendlove, Fried

Frank's Managing Partner. "Barry's extensive experience in high-stakes

transactions and complex litigation adds strength to an already strong team

of first-rate antitrust lawyers at the Firm."


    Robert Schwenkel, chair of Fried Frank's New York corporate department

and head of the Firm's M&A and private equity practices added, "Barry has

extensive experience securing merger approvals critical for the size and

complexity of deals our preeminent M&A and private equity practices have been

known to handle for more than three decades. With enhanced antitrust

capability we can deliver more for our clients and help them to achieve their

business goals."


    Mr. Nigro currently serves as an officer on the Council of the ABA's

Section of Antitrust Law and previously served as the Chair of the

organization's Communications Industry and Committee Operations Committees.

He was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Telecom Antitrust Handbook and is a

member of the Board of Editors of Antitrust Report.


    He received his Juris Doctorate from George Washington University Law

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School and his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University. Additionally, he

served as a clerk for the Honorable Charles R. Richey on the United States

District Court for the District of Columbia.


    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is a leading international

law firm with more than 500 attorneys in offices in New York, Washington,

D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Fried Frank lawyers

regularly represent many of the world's leading corporations and financial

institutions. The Firm offers legal counsel on antitrust and competition;

bankruptcy and restructuring; benefits and compensation; corporate matters,

including asset management, capital markets, corporate governance,

financings, mergers and acquisitions, and private acquisitions and private

equity; energy, alternative energy and climate change; financial

institutions; government investigations and regulatory counseling including

internal investigations and monitoring, securities enforcement and regulation

and white-collar criminal defense; insurance; intellectual property and

technology; international trade; litigation including arbitration and

alternative dispute resolution, commercial litigation, environmental

litigation, government contracts, securities and shareholder litigation; real

estate; tax; and trusts and estates. The Firm has an association with Huen

Wong & Co. in Hong Kong. More information on Fried Frank can be found at



SOURCE: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP


    CONTACT: Paula Zirinsky, 

             Director of Media Relations and Communications of 

             Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, 

             +1-212-859-8818,

             paula.zirinsky@friedfrank.com



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