Robert G Abrams

Bob Abrams leads BakerHostetler’s antitrust and trade regulation practice team and guides a team of attorneys with great depth and strength in the litigation and trial of antitrust cases, including class actions. The antitrust group also has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions and its partners have been point persons in dealing with the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on the antitrust aspects of clearing transactions. Bob has more than 30 years of experience litigating and trying antitrust and complex commercial and government enforcement matters. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of antitrust.Bob’s experience as a trial and litigation strategist spans practice areas and he has been lead counsel in lengthy antitrust, intellectual property, trade secret, and breach-of-contract jury trials and has represented both plaintiffs and defendants. He has argued in most of the US courts of appeals, presenting cases involving distribution and other business practices, the Alien Torts Claims Act and constitutional law issues. He has also defended clients in enforcement actions initiated by the DOJ, EPA, FTC and the California Air Resources Board. He was counsel in one of the largest FTC proceedings ever filed and was also lead counsel in one of the largest Clean Air Act enforcement actions in history. Bob tried a major class action on behalf of the defendant, ExxonMobil and, as lead plaintiffs’ counsel, recently settled a major class action for more than US$300 million and effective conduct changes on behalf of dairy farmers in 14 south-eastern states that was recognised as one of the six leading antitrust cases in 2012 by Global Competition Review.