Jeff Cashdan is the leader of King & Spalding’s Atlanta Business Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Cashdan focuses his practice on antitrust and complex business trial matters.
Mr. Cashdan has extensive experience in antitrust litigation and counseling for a variety of clients. His antitrust work includes representing clients in criminal and civil global cartel matters and in other civil antitrust actions involving various industries, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, beverages, oil and gas, textiles, financial products, telecommunications, and healthcare. The 2011 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers rates Mr. Cashdan in the top tier of antitrust lawyers and reports that Mr. Cashdan is “a first-rate intellect” and "undoubtedly one of the finest antitrust litigators in Georgia." The Best Lawyers in America selected Mr. Cashdan as the “2012 Atlanta Litigation-Antitrust Lawyer of the Year” and the “2011 Atlanta Antitrust Lawyer of the Year.” Global Competition Review lists Mr. Cashdan as among the world’s Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists 2011.
Mr. Cashdan also has substantial experience in other commercial litigation areas. He has represented firms and individuals in several purported class actions alleging securities fraud and other securities law violations. Mr. Cashdan regularly defends consumer fraud and RICO actions, and has represented businesses as plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation and appellate matters in a variety of substantive areas and industries. Mr. Cashdan is listed by The Best Lawyers in America as a leading lawyer for “bet the company” litigation, as well as for antitrust, securities, and commercial litigation, and Mr. Cashdan is recognized as a “Georgia Super Lawyer” by Atlanta Magazine. Mr. Cashdan also is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers who are selected based upon “effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels, and superior ethical reputation.”
Mr. Cashdan is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he served on the law review. Mr. Cashdan clerked for The Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat, then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mr. Cashdan earned his undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College, and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science prior to attending law school. Mr. Cashdan has served for many years among the leadership of the antitrust sections of the American and Georgia Bar Associations, including as the Chair of the Antitrust Section of the State Bar of Georgia and as a Vice-Chair of the Sherman Act Section 2 (monopolization) committee of the ABA’s Antitrust Section and on the ABA’s task force on international cartel enforcement issues. Mr. Cashdan also has served on the editorial boards of several publications, including the Antitrust Law Journal.
Mr. Cashdan is active in legal pro bono and community activities. Among Mr. Cashdan’s civic activities, he serves on the Board of Trustees for the Woodruff Arts Center; serves on the Indigent Defense Committee for the State Bar of Georgia; is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2008; serves on the Advisory Council for Crime Stoppers Atlanta; serves on the Board for Hosea Feed the Hungry & Homeless; and is a Life Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia. Mr. Cashdan also has served on the Board of Directors (Past President) of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to providing legal representation for persons of low income; on the Board of Directors of Special Olympics Georgia; and on the Board for the Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association
