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Norm Armstrong is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office and co-chairs the firm's global Antitrust practice. Norm focuses on a wide range of antitrust matters including complex transactions, government civil and criminal investigations, and antitrust litigation. He advises clients on matters before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ) and multiple U.S. Federal and State courts, in addition to consumer protection issues. Norm's over 25 years of antitrust law experience in the public and private sectors allows him to support clients on their most important, high-profile transactions and disputes.
He advises clients on all aspects of U.S. and international competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, government civil and criminal investigations, private antitrust litigation and counseling. Norm is a former deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition. He served in this role for six years overseeing three divisions and the regional offices that investigated anticompetitive transactions and conduct in an array of industries, including: healthcare, technology, pharmaceuticals, retail, consumer goods, energy, and entertainment. Prior to that, Norm served as deputy assistant director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition where he co-led some of the Commission's most high-profile litigation matters.
Norm is recognized by Law360 as a 2022 MVP Competition and as a leading antitrust practitioner by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, Global Competition Review, Who's Who Legal Competition, Best Lawyers in America and Lawdragon 500. He frequently lectures on a wide range of antitrust issues and is a former member of the ABA Antitrust Section's Long Range Planning Committee, co-chair of the ABA's Mergers and Acquisition Committee, and Vice Chair of the Pricing Conduct Committee.
J.D., Howard University School of Law
B.A., University of Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
American Bar Association Anitrust Section
American Health Lawyers Association
February 23, 2023
King & Spalding Team Closes a Variety of Esoteric Financings in the Second Half of 2022
December 14, 2022
King & Spalding Once Again Recognized on Global Competition Review’s GCR 100 List
November 16, 2022
King & Spalding advises on US-Saudi SPAC combination
Representing BASF in asserting antitrust counterclaims against a competing automotive component manufacturer, Ingevity Corporation.
Representing Evangelical Community Hospital in the Department of Justice’s challenge to its collaboration with Geisinger Health.
Represented Hillrom in its $375 million acquisition of Bardy Diagnostics.
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February 6, 2023
DOJ Alters Standards for Information Sharing in Healthcare
January 25, 2023
FTC Updates the Size of Transaction Thresholds for Premerger Notification Filings
January 9, 2023
FTC Cracks Down on Non-Competes
February 23, 2023
King & Spalding Team Closes a Variety of Esoteric Financings in the Second Half of 2022
December 14, 2022
King & Spalding Once Again Recognized on Global Competition Review’s GCR 100 List
November 16, 2022
King & Spalding advises on US-Saudi SPAC combination
Representing BASF in asserting antitrust counterclaims against a competing automotive component manufacturer, Ingevity Corporation.
Representing Evangelical Community Hospital in the Department of Justice’s challenge to its collaboration with Geisinger Health.
Represented Hillrom in its $375 million acquisition of Bardy Diagnostics.
See more
February 6, 2023
DOJ Alters Standards for Information Sharing in Healthcare
January 25, 2023
FTC Updates the Size of Transaction Thresholds for Premerger Notification Filings
January 9, 2023
FTC Cracks Down on Non-Competes
February 23, 2023
King & Spalding Team Closes a Variety of Esoteric Financings in the Second Half of 2022
December 14, 2022
King & Spalding Once Again Recognized on Global Competition Review’s GCR 100 List
November 16, 2022
King & Spalding advises on US-Saudi SPAC combination
J.D., Howard University School of Law
B.A., University of Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
American Bar Association Anitrust Section
American Health Lawyers Association