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’ transactional antitrust practice. He also has defended numerous clients in litigated antitrust cases and in government investigations.
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, BHP Billiton, HSBC N.A., ICAP plc, The Intercontinental Exchange, Merck & Co. Inc., Perrigo Company plc, and Pfizer Inc. among numerous others.
With respect to litigation, Harry has represented HSBC Holdings, the British international and financial services company, in major foreign currency exchange class action litigation before the US District Court in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Also on behalf of HSBC, he negotiated a settlement in a multidefendant antitrust case that avoided payment for damages. In another SDNY matter—this one involving two medical device companies—he helped secure a motion to dismiss a complex tying claim. Additionally, he represented Tolko Industries in connection with the oriented strand board class action litigation in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Most recently, Harry was retained to defend ICAP plc in connection with the multidefendant interest rate swap antitrust case filed in the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
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 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.
Harry has had leadership roles in obtaining antitrust approvals in some of the largest, most complex transactions in the last decade, including, e.g.,:
Recommended, Antitrust: Merger control, The Legal 500 US (2019, 2020)
Notable Practitioner, IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate (2019–2021)
Notable Practitioner, IFLR1000 United States (2018)
Ranked, Antitrust, New York, Chambers USA (2018,–2020)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Competition, Law360 (2017–2019)
Recognized, Competition, Global Competition Review's Who's Who Legal (2013–2020)
Recognized, Practice Group of the Year for Antitrust Law, US News & World Report and Best Lawyers (2017)
Recognized in Who’s Who Legal (2016–2017)
Ranked, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2010–2017)
Recommended, Antitrust - Merger control, The Legal 500 US (2015–2018)
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
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