David R. Brenneman represents clients on the antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and other business combinations and collaborations. David has talents in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, publishing, technology, telecommunications, energy information services, metals, and financial services. David has defended several high-profile transactions before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the European Commission. David has coordinated Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) notifications and other merger control filings around the world for hundreds of multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions and has guided clients through dozens of DOJ and FTC investigations and second requests.
David has also represented prominent companies with respect to non-merger FTC and DOJ investigations, including, on behalf of several leading global asset managers, investigations into possible Clayton Act Section 8 violations.
David regularly counsels clients with respect to agency strategy and procedure; premerger conduct counseling; contract negotiations; merger control analysis, filings, and approvals; and substantive advocacy before various competition law authorities in the United States and abroad. David also regularly provides antitrust counseling to trade associations, standard setting organizations, and other consortiums of industry participants.
David is a member of the Morgan Lewis Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Working Group.
Recommended, Antitrust: Merger control, The Legal 500 US (2018–2020, 2022)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Competition, Law360 (2017–2021)
Member, Practice Group of the Year for Antitrust, US News & World Report and Best Lawyers (2017)