Tara Tavernia

Counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP

Speaker

Tara Tavernia represents sophisticated clients in complex antitrust matters, including strategic mergers and government conduct investigations.

Tara draws upon her extensive experience to efficiently guide market-leading companies and private equity clients through high-stakes antitrust matters involving:

• Transaction reviews, including securing unconditional approvals and, when necessary, Second Request compliance and merger remedy negotiation
• Investigations brought by federal enforcers
• Antitrust litigation

She leverages her deep understanding of the agency landscape to deliver high-level client service in the face of government scrutiny across a broad range of industries.

Tara is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and currently serves as the Co-Chair of The Antitrust Source online magazine.

Tara’s experience includes representing:

• Tapestry, owner of several major US fashion brands, on the antitrust considerations for its US$8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings
• A major airline on defending against a US Department of Justice (DOJ) federal court challenge to a joint venture
• Ka’ena, the owner of Mint Mobile, on the antitrust considerations of its US$1.3 billion sale to T-Mobile
• A global consumer products company facing a Robinson-Patman Act investigation brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• EssilorLuxottica on antitrust considerations of its acquisition of US-based lab network Walman
• A leading life sciences company in an FTC investigation
• Astorg Partners and Goldman Sachs on antitrust considerations of its sale of Laboratoire HRA Pharma to Perrigo
• Antitrust considerations in a major telecommunications industry merger, including advising on all aspects of DOJ’s review of the transaction and serving on a trial team that successfully defended against a federal court challenge by a coalition of state attorneys general*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham