Ashley (Lee) McMahon

Lee has represented clients in antitrust matters related to price fixing, bid rigging, exclusive dealing, and market allocation, with a growing focus on no-poach allegations and cartel investigations. She has represented clients before the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and state attorneys general, as well as before international competition agencies such as the European Commission and South African Competition Commission. Lee assists clients with premerger notification, review, and analysis under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. Her experience spans multiple industries, including aerospace and defense, telecommunications, manufacturing, technology, health care, and consumer products.

Lee has also developed her pro bono practice, where she has won immigration asylum for multiple clients. In law school, Lee won release from reincarceration for multiple clients before the U.S. Parole Commission as a law clerk for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She has interned for three public defender’s offices, in Washington; Charlottesville, Virginia; and New Orleans.

While in law school, Lee served as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law and was involved with the Innocence Project Clinic and Public Interest Law Association. She credits her solid footing in the legal world to the nearly four years before law school she spent as a paralegal at a revered civil rights and criminal defense boutique firm in Boston. Most recently, Lee worked for four years in antitrust and competition at another global law firm in Washington, DC.