Trio of Latham Matters Honored with Top Prizes at GCR Awards
Mike Egge voted as Dealmaker of the Year for groundbreaking work and his dynamic leadership within Latham and the antitrust bar broadly.
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Elizabeth Prewitt is a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department and a member of the Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. She focuses on managing responses to both civil and criminal government antitrust investigations.
Ms. Prewitt defends corporations and executives facing complex and often cross-border antitrust investigations initiated by US federal (DOJ), state, and foreign competition enforcement agencies. She is an experienced trial lawyer who represents companies in high-stakes antitrust litigation matters.
Prior to transitioning to private practice, Ms. Prewitt spent 16 years as a trial lawyer in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). She served as Assistant Chief of the Antitrust Division in the New York office from 2012 to 2014 and as a Visiting International Enforcer to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition in Brussels. Ms. Prewitt is a first-chair trial counsel and two-time recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award (the DOJ’s second highest award) and the Assistant Attorney General’s Award. She was the lead prosecutor for the DOJ’s criminal antitrust cartel investigations into rigging of Libor and Forex rates and managed those investigations alongside parallel investigations by domestic and foreign competition and fraud enforcers and regulators.
Ms. Prewitt is known as a preeminent competition lawyer and has been recognized internationally by leading publications, including as a “leading lawyer” by Global Competition Review; Expert Guides: Business Law and Competition; Who’s Who Legal: Competition recognizing her as “one of the leading cartel lawyers in the US” who is praised as a “talented criminal antitrust lawyer with strong presence;” Lawdragon recognizes her as one of 500 Leading Litigators in America; The Legal 500, recognizing her for being “exceptionally knowledgeable, commercial, user-friendly and responsive;” and Chambers USA, with sources describing her as an “expert in antitrust law” and “very smart, very strategic and very user-friendly.” Most recently, Ms. Prewitt was the winner of the US Behavioral Matter of the Year award by GCR for successfully defending a poultry executive facing a criminal price fixing charge by the DOJ, serving as first-chair trial counsel over the course of 13 weeks prior to its dismissal with prejudice.
Ms. Prewitt is Co-Chair of the International Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Cartel Working Group and Vice-Chair of the Programs Committee of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the David E. Rockefeller Foundation.
Ms. Prewitt’s experience includes representing a:
* Matter handled prior to joining Latham & Watkins
Ms. Prewitt regularly speaks and writes on regulatory trends and updates in international competition, including:
Mike Egge voted as Dealmaker of the Year for groundbreaking work and his dynamic leadership within Latham and the antitrust bar broadly.
A range of disputes practices and practitioners are recognized for their market leadership in annual rankings.
Latham & Watkins' Elizabeth Prewitt explores in an interview what went into the uncommon decision to reserve her opening argument for chicken wholesale executive Tim Mulrenin in the February price-fixing case.