Adam J. Di Vincenzo

Adam J. Di Vincenzo is a senior associate in Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office specializing government antitrust investigations, the antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and civil antitrust litigation. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and Antitrust and Trade Regulation practice group. 

Mr. Di Vincenzo's experience encompasses a wide range of antitrust and regulatory enforcement matters and litigation.  He has represented numerous clients before antitrust and competition enforcement authorities in the United States, European Union, Brazil, and other jurisdictions in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, intellectual property issues, standard-setting activities, and other matters.  He also regularly counsels clients on complex antitrust, regulatory, and compliance issues, including issues arising under the Sherman Act, the Robinson-Patman Act, and the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. 

Representative Matters

• Represented Ticketmaster Entertainment in connection with the DOJ’s investigation of its 2010 merger with Live Nation
• Represented Schlumberger Limited in connection with a number of transactions in the oilfield services industry, including Schlumberger’s $11 billion acquisition of Smith International in 2010
• Represented Dell Inc. in connection with an FTC enforcement action involving patent hold-up in the standard-setting context
• Represented Watson Wyatt in connection with its $3.5 billion merger with Towers Perrin
• Represented Allergan before the FTC in connection with its $3.2 billion acquisition of Inamed
• Represented Flexsys America in federal court in connection with a multi-district antitrust class action
• Represented K&F Industries in connection with DOJ and UK Office of Fair Trading investigations of a $1.1 billion acquisition by Meggitt PLC

Professional Activities and Publications

Mr. Di Vincenzo is an active member of the antitrust bar and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.  He previously served as a Vice Chair of the Communications and Digital Technology Industries Committee of the ABA’s Section of Antitrust Law and Editor-in-Chief of Icarus, the committee newsletter.  He has also published a number of articles on antitrust law and enforcement trends, and serves as an editor of Antitrust Laws & Trade Regulation: Desk Edition (published by LexisNexis).  Representative publications and speaking engagements include the following:

• Speaker, “Standard Setting Case Study Panel: Recent and Current Cases Impacting Antitrust Enforcement” before the Antitrust Enforcement in Global Technology Markets Conference in Seattle, WA (LSI, June 2010)
• M. Sean Royall & Adam J. Di Vincenzo, Evaluating Mergers Between Potential Competitors Under the New Horizontal Merger Guidelines, 25 ANTITRUST 1 (2010)
• M. Sean Royall, Amanda Tessar, & Adam Di Vincenzo, Deterring “Patent Ambush” in Standard Setting: Lessons from Rambus and Qualcomm, 23 ANTITRUST 34 (2009)
• M. Sean Royall & Adam J. Di Vincenzo, The FTC’s N-Data Consent Order: A Missed Opportunity to Clarify Antitrust in Standard Setting, 22 ANTITRUST 83 (2008)
• Speaker, “Strategic Use of Merger Control – Chicanery, Mischief, or Justified Cry for Help?” before the International Association of Young Lawyers’ 45^th Annual Congress (August 2007)
• Adam J. Di Vincenzo, Leading Cases: Third Circuit Rules That Exclusivity Provision in Distribution Agreement Violated Sherman Act Section 2; Federal Circuit Rules That Patent on Tying Product Creates Rebuttable Presumption of Market Power, Antitrust Report (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender, Winter 2005)

Prior Experience and Education

Mr. Di Vincenzo received his J.D. cum laude from Duke University School of Law in 2002, where he served as an Articles Editor for the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems. He has also received a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) from the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science (with honors) from the University of Richmond. 

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Di Vincenzo served as a law clerk at the Office of Counsel to the President in the White House and at the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.