Ms. Cairo focuses her practice on antitrust and competition law matters. She has a diverse experience with antitrust counseling, investigations and litigation, including: 

• Rendering strategic advice for antitrust programs in a comprehensive corporate compliance model, including drafting presentations to senior management, drafting programs for executives and employees and antitrust training modules
• Providing counseling on the structure of distribution, sales and joint ventures to minimize antitrust risk and on the possible antitrust implications of patent settlements in the pharmaceutical sector
• Engaging in strategic reviews of potential mergers and acquisitions, working closely with economists in advocacy before the FTC or DOJ
• Counseling and representation of corporate defendants in criminal cartel investigations, including managing and undertaking internal investigations and compliance audits
• Representing clients before the FTC, DOJ and state enforcement authorities in civil non-merger investigations of potential antitrust or unfair competition violations
• Representing parties in civil antitrust litigation, including class actions

Representative Engagements

• Advocacy before the FTC on behalf a pharmaceutical company in connection with the settlement of patent litigation that closed without further investigation
• Defended merger party before the DOJ in merger investigation that involved large “Second Request” and resulted in the closing of the transaction without litigation
• Representation of an independent physicians’ association against charges of price-fixing by the FTC that ended with a consent decree and no civil fine
• Drafted antitrust compliance policy for industrial manufacturer and developed complete audit and compliance program
• Defended food product manufacturer in a grand jury probe that ended with the DOJ closing the investigation without indictment
• Advocacy before the FTC on behalf a pharmaceutical company in connection with the settlement of patent litigation that closed without further investigation
• Defending company against allegations of price-fixing in an MDL pending in the Eastern District of New York

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Cairo was an associate at the Washington, D.C. office of a national law firm.

Członkostwo

• District of Columbia
• Maryland