Kevin Sullivan is a partner in King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office. His practice includes a wide variety of criminal and civil litigation. Because of the clients he represents and his experience at the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division, he has developed extensive experience in antitrust, white collar defense work and civil litigation. Mr. Sullivan is recognized as a Leading Antitrust Lawyer by Chambers (“innovative and creative -- he can view a problem up close or from 30,000 feet, depending on the objective at hand”), one of the Nation’s Top 10 Antitrust Lawyers in the United States Lawyer Rankings for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Mr. Sullivan has been nominated by his peers as one of the world’s leading Competition Lawyers and listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers.
Presently, Mr. Sullivan represents a variety of clients involved in federal antitrust criminal investigations and civil cases. Mr. Sullivan defends and prosecutes antitrust civil cases from initiation through trial and appeal. He also provides counseling services to clients on antitrust and telecommunications issues. In addition, Mr. Sullivan has extensive experience in international antitrust matters and has coordinated merger approvals and responses to foreign government antitrust investigations in Europe, before the European Commission and its Member States, Canada, Japan and South Korea.
Prior to entering private practice in 1986, Mr. Sullivan served as trial attorney and then Assistant Section Chief at the Department of Justice and was Lead Counsel in charge of the AT&T consent decree. Mr. Sullivan was lead counsel on more than a dozen grand juries and civil antitrust investigations. Mr. Sullivan speaks and writes widely on antitrust issues. He is the editor-in-chief of the ABA Handbook on Antitrust Grand Jury Investigations, a member of the ABA Antitrust Section International Task Force, former co-chair of the ABA Antitrust Section Criminal Practice and Procedure Committee, former chair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee and former chair of the Corporate Governance Task Force.
After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1971 from Gannon University, Mr. Sullivan earned his law degree from Catholic University in 1975. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Pennsylvania Bar, several Federal Appellate and District Bars and the bar of the United States Supreme Court.
Memberships
- ABA Handbook on Antitrust Grand Jury Investigations, Editor-in-Chief
- ABA Antitrust Section International Task Force
- ABA Antitrust Section Criminal Practice and Procedure Committee, former co-chair
- Annual Meeting Program Committee, former chair
- Corporate Governance Task Force, former chair
