Jarod Bona

Positions:

Principal, Bona Law LLP
San Diego, CA

Experience & Areas of Interest:

In March 2014 started own law firm, Bona Law PC. His experience spans a variety of antitrust matters, including, for example, issues arising from intellectual property settlements and disputes, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, agreements among competitors, resale-price-maintenance programs, antitrust claims against state and local government entities, merger and acquisition transactions, Noerr-Pennington, class actions, labor-exemptions, Robinson-Patman Act, government investigations, international, and others. Jarod has also helped entities (including trade-associations) develop antitrust policies, and have advised standard-setting organizations on antitrust issues.

In addition, he is a Non-Governmental Advisor for the Unilateral Conduct Working Group of the International Competition Network, which is an international body devoted exclusively to competition law enforcement with members representing national and multi-national competition authorities.

Before starting Bona Law, Jarod worked with DLA Piper (Gray Cary at the time) in San Diego, California and in DLA Piper’s Minnesota office. Previously he worked in the Appellate and Constitutional Law group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington DC before moving to their Irvine, California office.

Education:

• J.D.. Harvard Law School, cum laude, 2001, (John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow and Senior Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation)
• B.A., Illinois Wesleyen Univ.