Kent A. Gardiner
Overview
Kent Gardiner is the former chair of Crowell & Moring. Kent’s practice focuses on antitrust and other complex litigation, including class actions, antitrust/intellectual property cases, and multi-district litigation.
Career & Education
- Department of Justice: Antitrust Division
Trial Attorney, 1984 — 1987
- Department of Justice: Antitrust Division
- Binghamton University (State University of New York), B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, economics and English
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 1984
- District of Columbia
- New York
Kent's Insights
Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23
Washington – August 17, 2023: The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 47 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 41 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
Firm News | 10 min read | 06.01.23
Firm News | 7 min read | 08.18.22
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.01.22
Chambers USA 2022 Ranks 70 Crowell & Moring Lawyers and 37 Practice Areas Among Best in U.S.
Representative Matters
- Representing international airline in relation to government investigations and associated class action litigation involving alleged multi-billion dollar pricing and capacity collusion.
- Representing a major railroad in defense of MDL class action alleging multi-billion dollar conspiracy to fix fuel prices.
- Represented Humana in trial against U.S. DOJ relating to proposed Humana-Aetna merger.
- Tried antitrust/contract/tort defense case with $200 million in claimed damages; settled mid-trial for no damages and plaintiffs' payment of defense costs.
- Represented DuPont at trial involving misappropriation of over 100 trade secrets relating to DuPont’s Kevlar® fiber technology, in one of the largest trade secret misappropriation cases in the United States history; obtained record-setting damages award and assisted with U.S. DOJ’s successful prosecution of a large Korean conglomerate for the theft of DuPont’s core technology. Obtained summary judgment against antitrust counterclaims.
- Tried criminal antitrust case in marine construction industry; obtained dismissal at close of prosecutor's case.
- Represented a major agricultural company in successful defense of a connection with a DOJ criminal investigation.
- Represented a group of corporations in opt-out litigation against the largest global computer chip manufacturers, for their involvement in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry; obtained substantial recoveries.
- Represented a major chemicals manufacturer in global antitrust investigations and related class action litigations; obtained non-prosecution resolution.
- Represented a major metals manufacturer in DOJ and European Commission investigation; closed without prosecution.
- Represented a major construction company in international government contracts/antitrust investigation; closed without prosecution.
- Represented more than one hundred companies in recovering overcharges by suppliers involved in price-fixing conspiracies.
Kent's Insights
Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23
Washington – August 17, 2023: The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 47 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 41 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
Firm News | 10 min read | 06.01.23
Firm News | 7 min read | 08.18.22
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.01.22
Chambers USA 2022 Ranks 70 Crowell & Moring Lawyers and 37 Practice Areas Among Best in U.S.
Kent's Insights
Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23
Washington – August 17, 2023: The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 47 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 41 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
Firm News | 10 min read | 06.01.23
Firm News | 7 min read | 08.18.22
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.01.22
Chambers USA 2022 Ranks 70 Crowell & Moring Lawyers and 37 Practice Areas Among Best in U.S.