Antitrust Practice

John has a wealth of experience in antitrust law through his current practice, including the following:

  • Serves as antitrust counsel to a multi-specialty health care provider
  • Counsels various health care, manufacturing and other clients on antitrust issues arising in operational and transactional contexts
  • Represents manufacturing and other clients in responding to investigations, subpeonas and document requests from federal and state antitrust enforcement authorities, as well as from private parties engaged in civil antitrust litigation
  • Represented Massachusetts health care systems as acquiring or acquired entities in their Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger filings and other antitrust issues
  • Successfully defended a health care system in antitrust suit in federal court in Massachusetts, obtaining dismissal of the case before discovery
  • Reviews and revises antitrust compliance policies for a variety of clients, and provides antitrust compliance training as requested

Prior to re-entering private practice, John worked in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division from 1995 to 1997 and again from 2009 to 2014. In the New York Field Office in New York, New York, John investigated and prosecuted white collar criminal violations of antitrust and related laws. During this time, he successfully tried and convicted hospital facilities executives and bankers from a Fortune 500 bank. As a member of the Merger Task Force in Washington, D.C., John investigated and challenged potentially anticompetitive mergers in a variety of industries. Before his government service, John was a senior associate at a large law firm in Boston and as such defended five liberal arts colleges subject to DOJ antitrust investigation for alleged anticompetitive conduct in setting tuition, financial aid and faculty salary levels.

In 2017, John was a speaker and organizer of the Boston Bar Association CLE program,"Antitrust in Healthcare: Foundations, Operations, Transactions." He is a regular guest lecturer on "Antitrust 101 for Healthcare Lawyers" for both the Boston University Law School course on Health Care Transactions and the Maine Law and Public Policy course on Health Care Law and Ethics.

John is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Firm Highlights

Publication/Podcast

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say…Gorelick v. Star Markets: A Study in Indemnity

Indemnity clauses in contracts are a valuable tool for allocating risk among the contracting parties, most often risk attendant to personal injury and property damage, and their effect can be far-reaching. Despite their significance...

Matter

Advised Fortune 500 Company on Group Health and Welfare Benefit Plans

We were engaged by a Fortune 500 manufacturing company to provide legal and compliance services regarding its group health and welfare benefit plans. During the course of our representation, we have advised the company...

Blog

HR Power Hour with Sabine Gedeon

News

David Lazarus Quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Article Regarding Cryptocurrency Whistleblowing.

Event

Maine HR Convention: Workshop A: Out of Sight, Out of Mind-Legal Implications of Proximity Bias

Join Verrill's Tawny L. Alvarez at the 2023 Maine HR Convention where she will be presenting Workshop A:Out of Sight, Out of Mind-Legal Implications of Proximity Bias. Proximity bias can raise discrimination issues for...

Blog

Carolyn Gilbert Nominated to Maine PUC

On March 28, Governor Janet Mills nominated Carolyn “Carrie” Gilbert to serve a six-year term on the Maine Public Utilities Commission. For the past 15 years, Gilbert has worked at Daymark Energy Advisors where...

Publication/Podcast

Whole Foods Win Shows Workplace Rules Can Shield Cos.

Verrill attorney Liz Johnston was recently published in Law360 for her article “Whole Foods Win Shows Workplace Rules Can Shield Cos.” In the article, Johnston discusses the recent decision in Kinzer v. Whole Foods...

News

Verrill's Norman Belanger and Betts Gorsky Featured in Mainebiz Article

Event

Maine HR Convention: Workshop C: What Every Plan Sponsor Needs to Know-Your Fiduciary Duties in 2023

Join Verrill's Christopher S. Lockman at the 2023 Maine HR Convention where he will be presenting Workshop C: What Every Plan Sponsor Needs to Know-Your Fiduciary Duties in 2023 . This workshop will review...

Matter

Elections and Constitutional Law: Successfully Challenged Certification of Initiative Petition

In a victory for consumers and the ride-hailing public, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently barred the Secretary of State from placing on the November ballot initiative petitions proposed by companies such as Uber...

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