Aaron T. Chiu

Aaron's experience includes representing:

Technology

• A major global technology company in multiple litigations
• Apple in a putative class action related to the design and implementation of Apple’s innovative Apple Pay and Apple Wallet features
• Meta (formerly Facebook) in a variety of matters
• DoorDash in antitrust litigation alleging a conspiracy among food delivery companies to implement most favored nation clauses (MFNs); after convincing plaintiffs’ counsel that DoorDash did not utilize the challenged MFNs, the plaintiffs dropped DoorDash from the amended complaint
• Toshiba in a putative class action challenging a standard essential patent pool as anticompetitive and in a related successful international arbitration against Samsung to enforce a contractual covenant not to sue
• RPX, a defensive patent risk-management solutions provider, in successfully defending challenges to its business model as comprising a patent buyers’ cartel by securing judgment on the pleadings and defending the judgment on appeal before the Ninth Circuit
• HannStar Display in a Ninth Circuit appeal related to price-fixing lawsuits in which opt-out plaintiffs alleged price-fixing in the TFT-LCD panels industry

Entertainment, Sports & Media

• The Atlantic Coast Conference in a putative class action antitrust case brought by current and former student-athletes against the NCAA and other collegiate conferences
• World Aquatics, the International Federation for aquatic sports, in a pair of antitrust lawsuits by the International Swimming League (ISL) and Olympic swimmers alleging that World Aquatics leveraged its role as governing body to boycott a professional swimming league. Defeated the swimmers’ bid to certify a damages class and obtained summary judgment on all antitrust claims, earning Litigator of the Week Honors from The American Lawyer.
• US Soccer in a high-profile antitrust lawsuit by soccer promoter Relevent Sports alleging that US Soccer conspired with FIFA and others to preclude official foreign league soccer matches from being played on US soil and to boycott professional soccer players, clubs, and leagues that seek to play in such matches, for which the team garnered recognition from The American Lawyer and Global Competition Review
• A global media conglomerate in a government investigation into bid-rigging in the advertising industry

Additional Industries

• American Airlines in a federal trial, successfully defeating claims by a group of private plaintiffs that sought to unwind American Airlines and US Airways’ merger, garnering recognition as an American Lawyer Litigator of the Week runner-up
• Ferrellgas Partners in multidistrict litigation alleging that it conspired to reduce propane exchange tank fill levels and thereby fix propane exchange tank prices, in which Latham obtained dismissal of more than half of the consumer class’s remaining state-law claims and subsequently defeated class certification, garnering recognition within The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week column