Harry T. Robins

Partner

Harry T. Robins is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Antitrust Practice. Mr. Robins represents clients, including a number of prominent private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies, before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as international regulatory agencies, in connection with mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions.

Most recently, Mr. Robins has had leadership roles in obtaining antitrust approvals in several complex transactions:

On behalf of Pearson plc in connection with its acquisition of Harcourt Assessment from Reed Elsevier (Department of Justice, 2008)

On behalf of Claymont Steel in connection with its sale to Evraz (Department of Justice, 2007)

On behalf of Digital Insight in connection with its sale to Intuit (Department of Justice, 2007)

On behalf of Severn Trent plc in its sale of its US environmental laboratory business to H.I.G. Capital/Test America (Federal Trade Commission, 2007)

On behalf of Progress Rail (formerly owned by One equity Partners) in connection with its sale of its FM Industries business to Amsted, Inc. (Department of Justice, 2006)

On behalf of Pfizer Inc. in connection with its in-license of Fesoterodine from Schwarz Pharmaceutical (Federal Trade Commission, 2006)

On behalf of Performance Fibers' (Sun Capital) acquisition of Invista's European fiber business (Phase II  investigation by the German Federal Cartel Office, 2005)

On behalf of Pearson plc in connection with the acquisition of AGS Publishing (Department of Justice, 2005)

On behalf of One Equity Partners (the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase) in the United States and the European Union in connection with One Equity Partners' sale of Moneyline Telerate to Reuters plc. (2004)

Mr. Robins also handles a number of litigation and counseling matters, including class action litigation and government investigations. Most recently, Mr. Robins represented HSBC in connection with the foreign currency exchange class action litigation (S.D.N.Y.) and Tolko Industries in connection with the oriented strand board class action litigation (E.D. Pa).

Mr. Robins is a frequent writer and speaker on antitrust matters. In January 2002, he presented at the Bond Market Association's Annual Compliance Conference on "Standard-Setting Initiatives for the Fixed Income Industry: An Antitrust Primer." In July 2004, he spoke at the ABA Business Law Section on "Proposed Changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Rules." Most recently, in September 2005, Mr. Robins spoke at an M&A Seminar sponsored jointly by Morgan Lewis and The Westchester/Fairfield County Association of Corporate Counsel on "Antitrust Tips for the M&A Lawyer."

Mr. Robins is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.