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Alicia Batts is a partner in Proskauer Rose’s Litigation Department, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. An antitrust litigator who represents clients in the federal courts and before federal and state agencies, and provides counsel on related matters to companies in a range of industries, she also brings valuable experience from her past work as an antitrust advisor at the Federal Trade Commission.
Alicia practice concentrates on all issues relating to unfair trade practices, and she regularly represents clients before antitrust enforcement agencies and in federal antitrust cases. She also has extensive experience representing and providing antitrust counseling for companies in a range of industries, including automotive, aeronautics, pharmaceutical, financial, and energy.
Alicia previously worked at Dickstein Shapiro LLP, where she was a partner. She has also worked as an antitrust advisor to Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson, for whom she reviewed antitrust actions before the FTC and made recommendations on enforcement and policy matters before the Federal Antitrust Agency. In her career she has represented, among many others: a worldwide credit and charge card network in defense of allegations that exclusivity agreements with issuers violated antitrust laws; a hospital association in a class action filed against a teaching hospital and medical associations and programs; a large distributor purchasing a competitor in a highly concentrated market; and a manufacturing company selling all of its assets to a Fortune 10 company, including antitrust filings in 23 jurisdictions.
Alicia has also served as vice-chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Business Torts & Civil RICO Committee, on the ABA antitrust section Litigation Task Force, and is a former member of the editorial board of the Antitrust Law Journal. A regular panelist at antitrust conferences, she is also a member of the board of directors of the Appleseed Foundation, is committee chair of the St. Albans' Parents' Association, and is listed in Black Enterprise's "America's Top Black Lawyers."
Alicia is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University Law School. She graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1990, where she was a member and managing editor of the Columbia Business Law Review.
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