Mandy Reeves, recognized as one of the top antitrust lawyers in the world, is a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department. She is the Office Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office, and formerly served as Global Chair of Latham’s Band 1 Global Antitrust & Competition Practice.
Mandy is a sought after global leader and strategic adviser in the antitrust bar. She routinely provides sophisticated advice to lead clients through their toughest matters, whether it involves developing a creative strategy to work constructively with global regulators to obtain regulatory approval, aggressively proceeding successfully through litigation and trial, or advising and leading the charge in defending novel monopolization claims in confidential investigations or landmark litigations. Her work cuts across all industries including high technology, life sciences, healthcare, aerospace, entertainment, sports, media, communications, agriculture, automotive, retail, and consumer products. Mandy is one of a handful of lawyers to have successfully led merger matters opposite both the DOJ Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission in recent years from signing, through the Second Request process, to closing following trial.
Mandy is a Chambers Band 1 lawyer and Global Competition Review (GCR), the world’s leading antitrust publication, named her the Global Competition Lawyer of the Year. She has also received numerous other accolades including Law360 Competition Law MVP; Forbes America’s Top 200 Lawyers; Legal Media Life Sciences Antitrust Lawyer of the Year; GCR Top Women in Antitrust; and The Deal “Top Women in Dealmaking.” In addition to Chambers, she has been recognized by Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, and has been named a Who’s Who Global Thought Leader in Competition Law.
Mandy previously served as Attorney Advisor to Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch at the Federal Trade Commission. She is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, where she previously served on the Section’s Governing Council and has chaired the Annual Law & Economics Institute for Judges, an intensive training program, which trains federal judges in antitrust law and economics.
Mandy has served in multiple management roles at Latham including her previous position as Chair of Latham’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice Group and Global Chair of the firm’s Mentoring Committee. Prior to joining Latham, Mandy clerked for Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Judge John G. Heyburn II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Mandy’s merger experience includes obtaining clearance across numerous industry-changing transactions, including:
In addition to her merger litigation experience highlighted above, Mandy routinely defends clients in civil litigation, including:
Three Latham teams secured major wins in Antitrust, Securities, and Appellate litigation, blocking an FTC merger challenge, defeating securities claims against Adobe, and upholding a US$5.2 billion compensation package for Trade Desk CEO.
Individual lawyers and the firm were shortlisted across nine categories, including D.C. Managing Partner of the Year and D.C. General Litigation Department of the Year.
Honors also include FDA Litigation & Enforcement Firm of the Year, Impact Case of the Year, and Impact Deal of the Year.