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Emily Blackburn is a deal lawyer and litigator whose practice focuses on antitrust/competition matters and complex civil litigation. She counsels companies in all aspects of merger clearance before the U.S. antitrust agencies and State attorneys general, represents them before federal and administrative courts in merger challenges and civil antitrust litigation, and provides sophisticated, pragmatic advice about transactions and business practices.
Emily's experience spans a broad range of industries including healthcare, retail/supermarkets, distribution, consumer products, telecommunications and media, semiconductors, rail, aviation, defense and aerospace, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, e-commerce, and social media. Before joining King & Spalding, she was a senior staff attorney in the Mergers I and Mergers IV divisions at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where she led and worked on numerous complex, high-profile merger investigations and enforcement actions, including playing a key stand-up trial role in the FTC’s successful challenge to the Kroger/Albertsons supermarket merger.
She received the Bill Baer Award (the FTC's highest law enforcement honor) for outstanding contributions to the agency's competition mission as well as several awards for outstanding contributions to individual matters and agencywide initiatives. She has also worked in the antitrust group of a global law firm in Washington, D.C. and as an economic consultant.
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