Representing Fortune 250 companies, leading private equity sponsors, and other prominent privately held clients, Harry T. Robins advises on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and joint venture transactions before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US Department of Justice (DOJ), state Attorneys General, and international regulatory agencies. Harry heads Morgan Lewis’s transactional antitrust practice. He also has defended numerous clients in litigated antitrust cases and in government investigations and has been outside antitrust counsel for numerous Wall Street industry consortia.
Harry frequently represents clients in transactional antitrust matters when Morgan Lewis is not retained for the corporate work on the deal; destination clients of Harry’s include Apollo Management, The Intercontinental Exchange, Perrigo Company plc, Pfizer Inc., Sun Capital, Teleflex Corporation, and Zoetis Inc. among numerous others.
With respect to litigation, Harry has also successfully represented several financial institutions and life science companies in multi-defendant multidistrict antitrust and single firm monopolization cases.
Due to his knowledge and experience with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, Harry is often quoted in the media about issues involved in this landmark antitrust legislation. His analysis of the FTC’s proposed changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger rules appeared in the publications Compliance Week and CFO.
Harry writes and speaks on antitrust matters, including a speaking engagement in a panel presentation on “Price Maintenance after Visa/MasterCard” during the Canadian Bar Association’s 2013 competition spring forum. He also delivered presentations at the American Bar Association (ABA) business law section on “Proposed Changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Rules.” He presented “Mergers—Nuts & Bolts, Distribution Practices & Competitor Collaborations in the United States: Spotting the Issues for Business Lawyers” at the ABA’s annual meeting in Toronto.
Ranked, Antitrust, New York, Chambers USA (2010–2024)
Recommended, Antitrust: Merger control, The Legal 500 US (2015–2024)
Recognized, Antitrust M&A, Litigation, Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America (2022, 2024, 2025)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Antitrust Law, New York (2022–2025)
Notable Practitioner, IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate (2018–2023)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Competition, Law360 (2017–2021)
Recognized, Competition, Who's Who Legal (2013–2020)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Antitrust Law, US News & World Report and Best Lawyers (2017)
Member, American Bar Association, Antitrust Section
Executive Member, New York State Antitrust Bar Committee
Former Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee