Healthcare Antitrust Enforcement Defenses: Failing Firm, Entry and Repositioning, Procompetitive Efficiencies

Mr. Gilman provides strategic antitrust counsel to companies navigating mergers, acquisitions, investigations, and litigation by the FTC, DOJ, and state attorneys general. His deep understanding of agency processes stems from seven years at the FTC, where he served as the assistant director of the Mergers IV Division, leading a team of 30 attorneys and overseeing some of the agency’s most high-profile merger investigations and litigation. Mr. Gilman draws on this government experience to guide clients through complex antitrust issues, including merger reviews and clearances, deal negotiations, HSR and foreign filings, government investigations, compliance, and litigation. His insight into enforcement policies, procedures, and priorities enables him to anticipate challenges and craft effective strategies to reduce antitrust risks and maximize the chances of deal clearances. Mr. Gilman has represented Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, and other organizations across industries such as health care, retail, consumer goods, technology, financial services, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, gaming, and energy, among others. He focuses his practice on advising merging parties and third parties in merger investigations and litigation, leveraging his FTC background to deliver practical, informed counsel. 

Mr. Snyder provides comprehensive antitrust services, including merger clearance, litigation, and counseling. He regularly represents industry-leading clients before the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, including clients seeking antitrust clearance for strategic mergers and acquisitions. Over two decades in private practice and government service, Mr. Snyder has developed particular depth and experience in the health care, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, and building materials sectors. Before joining the firm, he served as counsel to the assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. DOJ, where he was an integral part of the leadership team that set U.S. competition policy and supervised the federal government’s civil and criminal enforcement activities. Mr. Snyder also served for more than a decade as a senior trial attorney in the Antitrust Division, leading many of the government’s most significant merger and conduct investigations and litigations during that period.