White & Case has hired Ira Raphaelson as Senior Counsel in its Washington, DC and Chicago offices.
At White & Case, Raphaelson will work in the firm’s Antitrust Practice advising on business and litigation strategy, governance, antitrust, sanctions and trade compliance, mergers and antitrust compliance, and CFIUS matters.
“Ira comes to us as one of a handful of lawyers who has been a senior executive and general counsel of public companies, independent director, law firm partner, presidential appointee, career prosecutor and academic. Ira’s extensive courtroom and boardroom experience in venues around the world make him a pragmatic and effective business and governance counselor, as well as strategic planner for bet-the-company litigation and market entry,” said J. Mark Gidley, Global Head of White & Case’s Competition Practice.
Gidley continued, “I am particularly delighted to reunite with Ira, as we have previously worked together as partners in a law firm and at the Department of Justice where I was Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division and Ira was Special Counsel for Financial Institutions and Counselor to the then-Attorney General of the United States William P. Barr (who was recently re-nominated to the position).”
As General Counsel of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Ira’s presence and governance enhancements were cited as mitigating factors in settlements with the Justice Department, the SEC, and the
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