Andrew C. Finch

A partner in the Litigation Department, Andrew Finch has extensive litigation experience, including trial and appellate matters, as well as civil and criminal government investigations.

Experience

Since joining Paul, Weiss in 2005, his work has included:

• Representing a global financial institution in connection with investigations by the Department of Justice, CFTC, and other regulators into LIBOR and other interest rate benchmarks, as well as in civil litigations regarding LIBOR.
• Representing the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in a proceeding to set the royalty rate for certain public performances of musical compositions.
• Defending a payment card network against antitrust claims brought by a putative class of merchants in the United States that are challenging the credit card interchange system as a form of price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act.
• Defending a major insurance company against antitrust claims brought in federal and state courts by commercial insureds alleging bid rigging, market allocation, and the improper use of broker commissions.
• Representing clients in investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, numerous state attorneys general, and other regulators.
• Counseling clients on a wide variety of antitrust and other issues arising in business and litigation contexts, including interlocking directorates, price discrimination, exclusive dealing, resale price maintenance, and trade secrets.

Andrew joined the firm from the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), where he served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. While at the Antitrust Division, Andrew worked closely with Assistant Attorneys General and Deputies on civil merger and non-merger investigations, matters proceeding to trial, and appeals.

Andrew has also engaged in a number of projects involving the application of antitrust law to intellectual property. While at the DOJ, he participated in drafting the joint report of the DOJ and Federal Trade Commission titled Antitrust Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights: Promoting Innovation and Competition, and was a contributor to the Report of the DOJ's Task Force on Intellectual Property.

While at the University of Chicago Law School, Andrew was a John M. Olin Student Fellow in Law and Economics, the Topics and Comments Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Andrew is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law and served as a vice-chair of the Section's Civil Practice and Procedure Committee. He previously served as a member of the Editorial Board of Antitrust Law Developments (Sixth), and was the principal editor of the Section's recently published Handbook on Interlocking Directorates. Andrew is the co-author of the "United States" chapter in the fifth edition of The Public Competition Enforcement Review. In 2014, Andrew was recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in Antitrust. Clients commented that Andrew "is a very smart lawyer [who] has a very keen understanding of antitrust matters from the government perspective." He is also highly recommended by The Legal 500 in Antitrust.

Andrew is admitted to practice in New York, California and the District of Columbia.

Practices

• Litigation
• Antitrust
  

Education

• J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1997
  high honors
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
  High Honors

Clerkship

• Hon. Dennis Jacobs, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit

Bar Admissions

• New York
• District of Columbia
• California

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