New Antitrust & Competition Policy Guidelines

Jeffrey Schmidt
Competition Partner
Former Director of the Bureau of Competition, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Linklaters, LLP

Jeffrey Schmidt is a competition partner in the New York Office of Linklaters, LLP. Prior to joining Linklaters, from late 2005 to August 2008, Jeff served as Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. In that capacity, Jeff was responsible for overseeing all of the FTC’s antitrust enforcement activity.

Prior to joining the FTC, Jeff was an antitrust partner and also served as General Counsel of a company in the electronic data synchronization business.

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Robert A. Skitol
Senior Partner; Member of the Board of Directors, American Antitrust Institute
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Robert A. Skitol is a senior partner in the Antitrust Practice Group within the Drinker Biddle & Reath’s Litigation Department. He has over 35 years' experience in all facets of antitrust and trade regulation, and with a particular focus on antitrust aspects of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He is a former Attorney-Advisor to the Chairman of the FTC and former Special Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. Mr. Skitol has litigated major antitrust cases, guided numerous mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures through intensive antitrust reviews at the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice, and has coordinated multinational antitrust reviews of several major transnational transactions. He has represented clients in both FTC and Department of Justice antitrust investigations, and has provided in-depth counseling with regard to antitrust and related ramifications of proposed collaborations, distribution and pricing arrangements. Major clients that Mr. Skitol has represented include Hewlett-Packard Company, Agilent Technologies, Inc., ABB Inc., James Hardie Industries, Philips Medical Systems, The Stroh Brewery Company, Schindler Elevator Corporation and Susquehanna Broadcasting Company. Mr. Skitol served as a special consultant on competition policy to the Government of Jamaica, participated in drafting the Jamaica Competition Act and has advised the Jamaican authorities on the development of an effective competition policy enforcement regime. Mr. Skitol is a Director of the American Antitrust Institute.

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Dr. Richard T. Rapp
Special Consultant
National Economic Research Associates, Inc.

Dr. Rapp served as President of NERA from 1988 through 2005. Under his leadership, the firm grew to global scale with expansions into Europe, Asia, Australia, and within the U.S. He left this role at the end of 2005 to focus his full attention on the consulting work in the economics of antitrust, intellectual property, and complex commercial litigation he performed during his years as President. His approach to solving clients’ problems has often benefited from the distinctive pairing of his expertise in economics and experience as a business leader.

Dr. Rapp specializes in the economics of:
   - High-technology antitrust
   - Market power
   - Complex business valuation and damages estimation
   - Licensing, standard-setting, and royalty rate determination
   - Intangible asset valuation

Dr. Rapp has consulted on and testified about numerous industries, including health care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, semiconductors, computers, storage media, financial services, payment systems, music, books, advertising and promotion media, textile fibers, food franchise, and marine engines, among many others.

He has presented studies and testified before the US Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the International Trade Commission, and numerous Federal District Courts.

In addition to serving as NERA’s President and Chair of its Board of Directors and Management Committee, for many years Dr. Rapp also served on the Boards and Management Committees of NERA’s parent, Mercer Consulting Group, and of the Legal Aid Society. Richard T. Rapp Education NERA Economic Consulting 2

Prior to joining NERA Dr. Rapp was an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an award-winning author of books and articles on trade rivalry and economic decline.

Dr. Rapp’s articles have been published in Antitrust Law Journal, Journal of World Intellectual Property, Antitrust Report, Regulation, and Journal of Economic Integration, among others.

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Paul T. Denis
Partner, Co-Chair, Antitrust/Competition Group
Dechert LLP

Paul T. Denis is co-chair of Dechert’s antitrust/competition group, a practice that has been recognized by Chambers USA, a referral guide to leading lawyers in the United States, as one of the leading antitrust groups in the nation. Mr. Denis has been named one of the leading antitrust lawyers in Washington, D.C. by Chambers and has also been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and PLC Cross Border Competition and Leniency Handbook 2007/2008.

For over twenty years, Mr. Denis has focused his practice on the antitrust aspects of business combinations and other government investigations. While serving in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, he was the principal draftsman of the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines which, with minor modification, remain the analytical framework for federal merger enforcement. By combining the unique insights from his government tenure with a rich private sector experience, Mr. Denis helps clients achieve their business objectives by advising on the antitrust implications of business practices, structuring transactions to minimize risk, and advocating through antitrust review processes that may involve parallel proceedings with multiple national and state antitrust/competition authorities, as well as specialized regulatory bodies and the courts.

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