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Selected for inclusion in the BTI Client Service All-Star Team 2013 following client nomination

Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007–2008)

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2007–2009)

Member, Central Board of Trustees for the Settlement Music School

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Steven A. Reed
Partner


Email: sreed@morganlewis.com
Philadelphia
1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.5603
Fax: 215.963.5001

Steven A. Reed is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice and co-chair of the firm's Antitrust Litigation Group. Mr. Reed has more than 20 years of commercial litigation experience, with particular emphasis on high stakes securities, corporate governance, and antitrust litigation. He has represented leading companies in a variety of industries, including life sciences, chemical and petroleum, entertainment, finance, insurance, technology, accounting, paper and office products, retail, and transportation.

Before joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Reed served from 2009 until 2011 as vice president and deputy general counsel at a global biopharmaceutical company, Cephalon, Inc., where he managed the internal lawyers and external law firms that handled the company's litigation, employment, and regulatory law matters, and advised with respect to antitrust, disclosure, governance, and commercial matters. He also sat on a number of interdisciplinary policy and steering committees for the company, including its global compliance and enterprise risk management committees.

Prior to his tenure at Cephalon, Mr. Reed was a partner at a boutique litigation firm that he helped to found in 1992, specializing in complex commercial disputes at the trial and appellate levels throughout the United States.

Mr. Reed earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1990 and his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College in 1987.

Mr. Reed is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

education

  • University of Pennsylvania, 1990, J.D.
  • Franklin & Marshall College, 1987, B.A.