Eric Fanchiang is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Group. His practice focuses primarily on antitrust litigation for both defendants and plaintiffs and on government investigations. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, transportation, and digital media. Eric represents his clients on a wide range of antitrust issues including standard setting, trade association policies, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and price fixing.
Eric received his J.D. cum laude from the University of California, Irvine School of Law. While in law school, he was a staff editor and a lead notes editor of the UC Irvine Law Review and a research assistant to Professor Kenneth Simons, where he researched issues related to the drafting of the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons.
Eric received his B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine. Eric is active in the local bar, serving as a director for the Orange County Asian American Bar Association and is a current member of the Governing Council of the University of California, Irvine School of Law Alumni Association. He was recently named a 2020 Distinguished Alumnus by the University of California, Irvine Alumni Association.
Representative Matters
- Representing a major pharmaceuticals distributor as a defendant in a multi-district class action antitrust litigation alleging conspiracy to fix pharmaceutical drug prices by certain manufacturers.
- Representing a Class I railroad as a defendant in a multi-district antitrust litigation alleging conspiracy to fix fuel surcharge prices.
- Representing various third parties in antitrust investigations and litigations related to digital markets.
- Representing a major technology and telecommunications company in efforts to recover overcharges paid on price-fixed capacitors.
- Representing a transportation technology company as a plaintiff in litigation involving antitrust claims related to standard setting, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and exclusive dealing for emerging safety technology.
- Team member representing AT&T during the regulatory investigation, litigation, and appeal brought by the U.S. Department of Justice to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
Affiliations
Admitted to practice: California
Memberships
- Director, Orange County Asian American Bar Association
- Member, Governing Council of the University of California, Irvine School of Law Alumni Association
Publications
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"United States," Intellectual Property & Antitrust 2021, Lexology Getting the Deal Through
(2021).
Authors: Lisa Kimmel and Eric Fanchiang.
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"Chapter 13: Antitrust and Intellectual Property Licensing," Wolters Kluwer Licensing Update 2020
(April 2020).
Authors: Lisa Kimmel and Eric Fanchiang.
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"Digital Competition Reports and Merger Enforcement," CPI Antitrust Chronicle
(December 2019).
Authors: Alexis J. Gilman, Akhil Sheth, Angel Prado, and Eric Fanchiang.
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"California Declines to Extend Ban on Noncompetes Outside of Employment Context," Crowell & Moring's Trade Secrets Trends
(December 12, 2019).
Authors: Eric Fanchiang and Raija Horstman.
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"Intellectual Property & Antitrust," Getting the Deal Through
(December 2019).
Authors: Lisa Kimmel and Eric Fanchiang.
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"Are Agreements to Steal Trade Secrets an Antitrust Violation? Maybe, But Not Automatically," Crowell & Moring's Trade Secrets Trends
(July 12, 2019).
Authors: Eric Fanchiang and Raija Horstman.
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"Both Sides Explain Two Sides: Analyzing the Economic Trial Testimony in US Airways v. Sabre," ABA Antitrust Economics Committee Fall Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 2
(Fall 2017).
Authors: Robert McNary and Eric Fanchiang.
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