Winston & Strawn Starts New Tech Antitrust Group

The global law firm of Winston & Strawn announced the formation of a new, fully integrated Technology Antitrust Group. 

“As technology and the digital marketplace continues to create new opportunities for growth, organizations are faced with complex legal challenges to create and maintain an even playing field for fair competition,” said Susannah Torpey, Co-Leader of the Technology Antitrust Group. “The group offers not only the experience and insight necessary to navigate these challenges as either a plaintiff or defendant in litigation, but also a pragmatic business approach to facilitate opportunities to compete and innovate in the short term as well as long-term strategic planning amidst rapidly evolving regulatory initiatives affecting tech around the world.”

“The increasingly rapid pace of innovation has reshaped competitive dynamics for companies operating in technology markets and across digital platforms,” said Aldo Badini, Co-Leader, Winston & Strawn Technology Antitrust Group. “The Technology Antitrust Group provides clients with the focused expertise and litigation experience necessary to address evolving issues related to the convergence of technology, IP, and antitrust law.”

Aldo Badini is Co-Leader of the Technology Antitrust Group and a first-chair trial lawyer with more than 35 years of experience, focusing on antitrust and patent matters and representing clients in engagements stemming from the intersection of the two. 

Susannah Torpey, Co-Leader of the Technology Antitrust Group, has more than 15 years of experience representing leading companies in litigation, trials, appeals, and government investigations in connection with issues at the evolving intersection of antitrust, IP, and technology, including monopolistic, collusive, and anticompetitive conduct involving high-tech products, platforms, data, code, apps, interoperability degradation, standard-setting and standard-essential patents, patent-licensing and pools, patent-misuse, FRAND obligations, and fraud-on-the-PTO claims.

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