Phillip A. Proger
PHILLIP A. PROGER is a partner with Jones, Day, Reavis &
Pogue in Washington, coordinator of the Firm's Government Regulation
Group, and was the 1998-1999 Chair of the Section of Antitrust
Law of the American Bar Association. He practices antitrust law,
with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, antitrust counseling,
government (civil and criminal) investigations, and government
and private antitrust litigation.
He is a member of The American Law Institute, a Fellow of the
American Bar Foundation, and a member of the advisory board of
BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report and the editorial
board of The M&A Lawyer. He is also a member of the ABA (Antitrust
Law Section, chair, 1998-1999; vice chair, 1996-1997; publications
officer, 1994-1996; finance officer, 1992-1994; council member,
1989-1992; past chair, Health Care Committee; and past chair,
Section 7 [Merger] Committee; Health Law Section; Business Law
Section; and Tort and Insurance Practice Section), the Ohio State
Bar Association, and the District of Columbia Bar.
He regularly writes and speaks on antitrust topics. He is co-author
of "Department of Justice and FTC 1992 Horizontal Merger
Guidelines," 56 Corporate Practice Series, Bureau of National
Affairs (1992); The 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Commentary
and Text (1992), ABA Antitrust Law Section; Chapter 3 "Anticompetitive
Mergers: Prevention and Cure," Antitrust and Regulation,
The MIT Press (1985); Monograph No. 7, Merger Standards Under
U.S. Antitrust Laws, ABA Antitrust Law Section (1981); and "Proposed
Revisions of the Justice Department's Merger Guidelines,"
81 Colum. L. Rev. 1543 (1981). He also has been a speaker at seminars
sponsored by the American Bar Association, The American Law Institute,
The Conference Board, The New England Antitrust Conference, and
The Ohio Intensified Antitrust Conference. He has testified before
Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of
Justice's International Competition Policy Advisory Committee.
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