About William Lavery

William Lavery is the managing partner of Clifford Chance in the Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s US antitrust litigation group. An accomplished trial lawyer with 20 years of antitrust litigation experience, Will specialises in high-stakes civil and criminal antitrust matters and government investigations, regularly representing clients before the US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission and federal courts nationwide. Many of the world’s largest companies rely on his strategic guidance in complex “bet-the-company” litigation, investigations and merger challenges. Notably, Will secured a rare motion-to-dismiss victory in In re Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litigation, affirmed by the Seventh Circuit. His track record has earned consistent recognition as a leading antitrust practitioner in prominent national rankings.