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Washington – December 18, 2020: Global Competition Review ranked Crowell & Moring’s Antitrust & Competition Group in its annual “GCR 100” – the leading ranking of the world’s competition policy law and economics practices. This year marks the 21st edition of the awards and the 14th consecutive year that the Antitrust & Competition Group has been recognized.

Washington – January 2, 2020: Crowell & Moring elected eight lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2020. The firm also promoted seven attorneys to the position of senior counsel, and 26 associates to the position of counsel. The new partners have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm’s Washington, Los Angeles, and San Francisco offices. The new partners have been promoted from across offices and practice groups, including White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, Health Care, International Trade, Intellectual Property, Privacy & Cybersecurity, Government Contracts, Litigation, and Antitrust.

Washington – February 22, 2019: Crowell & Moring LLP’s Antitrust Group has again been recognized as “Highly Recommended” in Global Competition Review’s (GCR) 19th edition of the “GCR 100” – the leading ranking of the world’s competition policy law and economics practices. This marks the fourth year in a row in which the firm was ranked as “Highly Recommended” in Washington, D.C. and New York. Additionally, the group was ranked as “Recommended” in California. GCR is the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation.

Washington – October 31, 2017: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Super Lawyers has recognized 79 firm lawyers as leaders in their field in Southern California, Northern California, New York, and Washington, D.C. The firm’s lawyers listed below were named in Super Lawyers 2017, the Super Lawyers 2017 "Rising Stars" Edition or the Super Lawyers 2017 Women’s Edition. Lawyers were identified through a peer nomination process and listed by respective practice areas for which they were selected.

Washington, D.C. – October 27, 2017: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that client CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) prevailed in obtaining the denial of class certification, dismissing a group of rail shippers in their renewed bid to proceed as a class in a lawsuit alleging the country’s four largest freight railroads conspired to fix fuel surcharges.

Washington, D.C. – March 14, 2017: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that client Owens & Minor Distribution, Inc., the nation’s largest distributor of medical-surgical supplies, prevailed in an appeal of summary judgment dismissing an antitrust tying and exclusive dealing lawsuit alleging over $200 million in damages brought by a competitor, specialty distributor, Suture Express, Inc.

Washington, D.C. – November 30, 2016: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Super Lawyers has recognized 71 lawyers as leaders in their field in Southern California, Northern California, New York, and Washington, D.C. The firm’s lawyers listed below were named in Super Lawyers 2016, the Super Lawyers 2016 "Rising Stars" Edition, the Super Lawyers 2016 Women’s Edition, or the Super Lawyers 2016 Business Edition. Lawyers were identified through a peer nomination process and listed by respective practice areas for which they were selected.

Washington, D.C. – March 8, 2016: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that client Owens & Minor Distribution, Inc. (O&M), the nation’s largest distributor of medical-surgical supplies, prevailed in an antitrust tying and exclusive dealing lawsuit alleging over $200 million in damages brought by a competitor, specialty distributor, Suture Express, Inc. (Suture Express). Suture Express challenged contracting practices that offer differential pricing to customers depending on whether they procure distribution of suture and endo products, which tend to be the most profitable, from O&M or Cardinal Health, a co-defendant to O&M in the case. Suture Express's theory was that the pricing differential was so large that it could not effectively compete for distribution of suture and endo products, and that customers have no choice but to agree because they need the other medical-surgical products that O&M and Cardinal Health, but not Suture Express, distribute. After extensive fact and expert discovery, O&M, along with its co-defendant Cardinal Health, filed a motion for summary judgment and Suture Express filed a cross motion for partial summary judgment on liability. On March 3, 2016, Judge Daniel D. Crabtree of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas granted O&M and Cardinal Health's motion for summary judgment and denied Suture Express's motion, dismissing all claims and awarding defendants costs. Judge Crabtree found that Suture Express failed to provide sufficient evidence that either O&M or Cardinal Health possessed the market power necessary to support Suture Express’s claims, or that competition had been harmed. Judge Crabtree acknowledged that the undisputed facts revealed a competitive market in which distribution prices and margins have been declining. Judge Crabtree also found that O&M and Cardinal Health successfully established procompetitive benefits from the challenged contracting practices, which further negated Suture Express’s claims.

Washington, D.C. – October 27, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Super Lawyers has recognized 90 attorneys as leaders in their field. The Crowell & Moring attorneys listed below were named in Super Lawyers 2015, the Super Lawyers 2015 "Rising Stars" Edition, the Super Lawyers 2015 Women’s Edition, or the Super Lawyers 2015 Business Edition. Attorneys were identified through a peer nomination process and listed by respective practice areas for which they were selected.

Washington, D.C. – January 22, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP's Antitrust Group has again been recognized as "highly recommended" in Global Competition Review's (GCR) 15th edition of the "GCR 100: The World's Leading Competition Practices," in both the Washington, D.C. and New York categories. GCR is the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation.

Washington, D.C. – April 8, 2014: Global Competition Review (GCR), considered to be the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation, selected two matters handled by Crowell & Moring LLP as finalists for the fourth annual "GCR Awards." Specifically the matters include, Aetna Inc.'s acquisition of Coventry Health Care, Inc., which was named as one of five finalists in the "Team Awards: Merger Control Matter of the Year – Americas" category. Crowell & Moring served as U.S. antitrust counsel to Coventry Health Care, Inc. in this deal. In addition, the Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was selected as one of six finalists in the "Team Awards: Litigation of the Year" category. Crowell & Moring serves as lead trial counsel to CSX Transportation, Inc. in this matter.

Washington, D.C. – January 14, 2014: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce it has elected five attorneys to the firm's partnership effective January 1, 2014. The firm has also promoted fourteen associates to the position of counsel. The new partners and counsel have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm's Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Brussels, and New York offices.

Washington, D.C. – April 6, 2012: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has granted longstanding firm client DuPont summary judgment in its favor and dismissed Kolon Industries’ antitrust counterclaim with prejudice. The Crowell & Moring team was led by firm chairman and Antitrust Group partner Kent A. Gardiner and partner David D. Cross, partner Jeffrey L. Poston, associate Kathleen Clair, and associate Luke van Houwelingen of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.