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A. Paul Victor
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A. Paul Victor is Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group and an internationally known practitioner in antitrust and international trade law.
He was named in the 2008 Who's Who Legal: International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and in the 2008 Chambers America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
Over the years he has also been named as one of the New York area's best lawyers in New York Magazine and has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America.
He was also ranked among the world's top 20 lawyers in the competition and antitrust practice area by Euromoney Legal Media Group's guide to "The Best of the Best: 2000 Edition."
After spending almost three years with the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, Mr. Victor has spent the past 42 years representing clients in some of the biggest antitrust and international trade cases ever.
On the antitrust side, Mr. Victor has in recent years been involved in many criminal and civil international cartel cases, representing major corporations or individual executives in matters involving such products as lysine, nucleotides, carbon fiber, vitamins, graphite electrodes, MCAA, impact modifiers, chloroprene rubber, cathode ray tubes, marine hose, air cargo and auction house bidding practices.
These matters include US criminal proceedings, related federal treble-damage, and state indirect purchaser class actions and opt-out actions, as well as proceedings in other jurisdictions, such as the EU, Canada, Japan and Korea.
Mr. Victor has also handled various cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving antitrust issues.
Among his more significant litigations, he was counsel to Matsushita in the Matsushita case, which reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986 (In Re Japanese Electric Products Antitrust Litigation), and in the Go-Video case, which was successfully tried to a jury in 1991.
He also successfully resolved various international cartel matters for such clients as Toray Industries, Kyocera Hakko, Sumitomo Chemical, SEC Corporation, Tosoh Corporation and Kaneka Corporation, in recent years.
On the international trade law side, Mr. Victor has represented such companies as Matsushita, JVC, Toray, Chinatex, China Arts & Crafts, MARIS, Usinor Sacilor and BMW, from such countries as Japan, China, Singapore, France and Germany, in trade cases under the US antidumping, countervailing duty, escape clause and market disruption laws, involving such products as television sets, cellular mobile telephones, color picture tubes, print cloth, shop towels, compressors, steel and automobiles.
Mr. Victor is currently on the ABA Antitrust Section's International Task Force and has also served as Vice Chair of the Section, Co-Chair of the Section's Task Force on the ICPAC Report, and twice as a member of its Council and Chair of its International Antitrust Committee.
Mr. Victor is also active in the work of the International Chamber of Commerce's Competition Commission and USCIB's Competition Committee.
He has been invited to attend each of the seven annual meetings of the International Competition Network.
Mr. Victor is an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University Law School and has written and lectured widely on various antitrust and international trade law subjects, including at Michigan, Columbia and NYU Law Schools.