Mary Helen Wimberly

Partner at Axinn

Speaker

Mary Helen Wimberly is a partner with Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP in Washington, DC. Mary Helen has over 15 years of experience as a litigator, counselor, and policy and strategic advisor, working in private practice and all three branches of the federal government. She draws on her extensive public-sector background to bring insightful and practical guidance to clients facing complex regulatory and enforcement challenges. As an Associate Deputy Attorney General, Mary Helen served in a senior leadership role in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, which oversees the operations of the entire U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As a trial and appellate attorney in DOJ’s Antitrust Division for over eight years, Mary Helen covered the breadth of the Division’s work: merger challenges, civil conduct cases, cartel prosecutions, and formation of competition policy. And as counsel on detail to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary, Mary Helen supported the subcommittee with jurisdiction over matters of antitrust, commercial, and administrative law–engaging regularly with domestic and international policymakers, regulators, and enforcement authorities.