White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Rebecca H. Farrington

Practice Experience

Rebecca H. Farrington is a member of the Firm's Global Antitrust/Competition Practice. Ms. Farrington's areas of focus include government merger and non-merger investigations, private antitrust litigation, and counseling clients on antitrust issues. Ms. Farrington is nationally recognized for her experience counseling clients on the premerger notification filing requirements and related antitrust issues of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 ("HSR Act").

Ms. Farrington's experience includes:

Government Investigations

Defending proposed and consummated mergers before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in a variety of industries, including hospitals, food products, airlines, petroleum, coal, broadcasting, gaming, software, hardware, industrial products and retail sales;
Defending non-merger investigations, including investigations of alleged market allocation and violations of Section 8 of the Clayton Act; and
Advocating for government intervention on behalf of parties adversely impacted by proposed mergers or by anticompetitive conduct.

HSR Act Compliance

Advising on HSR Act and other global premerger notification requirements in connection with proposed transactions and preparing premerger notification filings;
Negotiating antitrust provisions in transaction agreements;
Developing client HSR Act training programs and compliance procedures; and
Representing clients in "failure to file" situations.

Antitrust Counseling

Advising on critical antitrust risk issues for business initiatives such as joint ventures, pricing and distribution strategies, information and data-sharing and trade association and industry-wide collaborative efforts;
Conducting antitrust compliance audits, analyzing liability exposure and recommending corrective action;
Creating and presenting in-house training programs for client legal departments and business units; and
Developing and implementing corporate antitrust compliance policies and on-line antitrust compliance training programs.

Civil Litigation

Defending allegations of price-fixing, bid-rigging and group boycotts in federal and state courts in a variety of industries, including glass, insurance, financial services and transportation.

Bars and Courts
District of Columbia Bar
California State Bar
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US District Court for the District of Columbia
US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
US Supreme Court

Education
JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), Member, Moot Court Board; Managing Editor, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, 1997
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, magna cum laude, College of Letters and Science Honors Graduate, 1992

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association, Antitrust Section

Publications
Editorial Chair, Handbook on Interlocking Directorates, ABA Section of Antitrust Law (forthcoming, 2008)
Contributor, Antitrust Law Developments, ABA Section of Antitrust Law (6th ed. 2007)
Co-Author, "Multi-jurisdictional Merger Control," Global Counsel Handbook, 2004
"Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions: Hart-Scott-Rodino Update," ALI-ABA, 2001

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States