White & Case
  Patrick Eyers
Associate
New York

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Practice Experience
Mr. Eyers is a member of the Firm’s Global Competition and Commercial Litigation Groups. His practice focuses on international antitrust litigation.

Mr. Eyers has experience advising clients in a wide range of antitrust law areas including price fixing, vertical restraints, merger clearance, monopolization and resale price maintenance. He has represented clients in the sports, shipping, energy, consumer electronics, highway safety, chemicals, telecommunications and financial services industries. In addition to his antitrust experience, Mr. Eyers has also advised clients with respect to intellectual property and general commercial litigation issues.

His significant recent experience includes:
  • Defending a major Japanese electronics conglomerate before the U.S. Department of Justice in a criminal price-fixing investigation, and in related civil lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and other courts;
  • Advising a leading industrial chemical company in connection with an antitrust investigation conducted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission;
  • Defending a global shipping company in a criminal antitrust action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice;
  • Representing low-income women pro bono in family law matters before the New York Supreme Court and New York Family Courts;
  • Arguing a criminal appeal pro bono before a five judge panel of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2006
US District Court for the Southern District of New York

Education
LLM, Georgetown University Law Center, 2005
LLB, University of Sydney, 2003
BA, University of Sydney, 2001

Publications
"Resale Price Maintenance in the United States: Recent Developments in State Enforcement," Concurrences Review, Issue No. 4-2011
Co-Author (with J. Mark Gidley), "A Good Carrot? U.S. Travel Restrictions in Cartel Enforcement," Competition Policy International (CPI) Antitrust Chronicle, October 2011
"Trade Dress Limitations on Copyright Licenses," The Intellectual Property Strategist, April 2007
Co-Author, "Fantasy Sports and the Right of Publicity," Sports Litigation Alert, September 2006
Co-Author, "Erosion of Rights or Redressing the Balance: Competition Challenges to Intellectual Property Rights," Trade Practices Law Journal, April 2004

Languages
English

Citizenship
Australia
United States