Summary
George Rozanski is an expert on the competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions and the analysis of alleged anticompetitive conduct, including vertical restraints, IP licensing practices, and price-fixing. He has substantial experience in developing and applying theories of competitive effects and in using economic models and empirical techniques to assess and quantify predicted effects of proposed mergers, agreements, and single-firm conduct.
Dr. Rozanski has more than 25 years of experience in antitrust analysis. Prior to joining Bates White, he served as Chief of the Economic Regulatory Section of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. In that role, Dr. Rozanski analyzed proposed mergers and acquisitions, single-firm conduct, and proposed changes in economic regulations and legislation that could affect competition and market outcomes. He had responsibility for conducting, supervising, and presenting the agency’s economic analysis in numerous investigations and litigations involving a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, banking and financial services, intermediate capital goods, differentiated consumer products, Internet music and video distribution services, financial trading platforms, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, steel, defense, and homogeneous manufactured goods.
In addition to his extensive experience in all aspects of the analysis of horizontal mergers, Dr. Rozanski has significant experience and expertise in the antitrust analysis of vertical restraints, vertical mergers, and allegations of price-fixing. Lexology Index named Dr. Rozanski as the 2020 Client Choice winner for competition economists in the United States, the first year the award was given to economists. Dr. Rozanski has also been named on the Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) list of leading competition economists since 2010 and a Thought Leader in Competition since 2020.
