About Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar is a partner at Freshfields, specialising in criminal antitrust enforcement and related white-collar matters. Drawing on over 15 years as a federal prosecutor, his experience is highlighted by his role as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement – the highest-ranking career official at the DOJ’s Antitrust Division. In this capacity, he supervised all domestic and international criminal antitrust prosecutions. Manish has overseen precedent-setting cases, including the first felony criminal monopolisation conviction and the first labour market trial conviction.