麻豆视频

EXPERIENCE

Significant representations include:

• Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in securing a complete defense victory at trial in a high-stakes antitrust suit brought by Surgical Instrument Service Company, Inc., (SIS) alleging that Intuitive illegally tied the sale and service of its da Vinci surgical robots to the purchase of its EndoWrist instruments. Bill served as co-lead trial counsel in the three-and-a-half-week jury trial in the Northern District of California.
• Bard in a competitor antitrust case alleging illegal tying. Bill served as trial counsel in a three-week jury trial in the Northern District of New York, winning a complete defense verdict for Bard.
• News Corporation and certain subsidiaries in a class action involving claims of exclusive dealing and monopolization, as well as in multiple antitrust actions brought by competitors. Bill co-led a team that successfully defended News Corporation against such claims in a three-week jury trial in the Southern District of New York.
• Becton, Dickinson听and Company (BD) in antitrust litigation involving monopolization, exclusive dealing and bundled discount claims. Bill argued and won an appeal in the Seventh Circuit, affirming the dismissal with prejudice of a putative class action claiming that BD conspired with distributors of its products in violation of antitrust laws. Bill also helped BD obtain complete dismissal of a putative antitrust class action in the Northern District of Georgia; defeat a competitor鈥檚 claims of exclusive dealing and monopolization at a jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas; and reverse a judgment of liability and damages for attempted monopolization by deception in the Fifth Circuit.
• Mastercard in an antitrust action brought by OV Loop, a mobile wallet startup, alleging that Mastercard refused to grant OV Loop access to MDES (Mastercard鈥檚 tokenization service), which OV Loop claims is an essential facility.
• ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) in a rate court litigation against the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC).
• SAP AG in defense of an action brought by a business analytics provider seeking more than one billion dollars in damages, alleging that SAP misappropriated trade secrets, infringed copyrights and violated antitrust laws related to its flagship product, HANA.
• Bumble Bee Seafoods in a putative antitrust class action and opt-out litigation involving claims of price fixing in the packaged seafood industry.
• Tribune Media Company in multidistrict antitrust litigation involving claims of price fixing in the market for the sale of local television advertisements.
• A major energy company in a bid-rigging investigation by the United States Department of Justice.
• A leading audio and visual technology company in an IP licensing dispute involving antitrust claims based on an alleged breach of FRAND obligations.
• Pretium Resources in winning a motion to dismiss a complaint by a putative class of investors alleging securities fraud.

Bill was shortlisted as Litigator of the Year by Global Competition Review鈥�s 2023 awards, and recognized in the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions of Chambers USA听in the Antitrust (NY) category, and in the Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense category of The Legal 500 USA.

Bill is the co-author of the 鈥淯nited States鈥� chapter in the tenth - fifteenth editions of The Public Competition Enforcement Review and the co-author of the chapter titled 鈥淪ettling an Antitrust Case鈥� in Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes: Negotiating, Drafting & Enforcement. Bill has also authored several articles on antitrust-related issues for publications including the New York Law Journal, Law360 and Competition Policy International. He previously served as Chair of the Editorial Board of The Antitrust Practitioner, a publication of the American Bar Association鈥檚 Section of Antitrust Law Civil Practice and Procedure Committee.

Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Bill was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, where he focused on civil merger and non-merger investigations in the telecommunications and media industries.

In law school, Bill was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.