A U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and BigLaw veteran recently joined antitrust boutique Bona Law. Dylan Carson, who most recently was a partner at Faegre Drinker, joins several fellow lawyers with Antitrust Division and BigLaw credentials.

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Carson brings over 20 years of experience working in BigLaw and as a government enforcer. He served for five years as a trial attorney in the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Section of the Antitrust Division’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. Before DOJ, he was a partner at Tucker Ellis and worked at Howrey and Kaye Scholer following a federal clerkship.

Carson’s antitrust and trial experience spans over two decades and includes numerous high-stakes merger trials such as FTC v. Heinz, U.S. v. AT&T-Time Warner, U.S. v. Aetna-Humana and U.S. v. Sabre-Farelogix. Short of trial, Carson was involved in several high-profile merger litigations, including Visa-Plaid, T-Mobile-Sprint, Franklin Electric-United Dominion, and Geisinger-Evangelical. His major antitrust conduct cases include United States v. Google and United States v. DirecTV & AT&T (the Los Angeles Dodgers information-sharing case).

“After my time at DOJ, it was a privilege to practice alongside exceptional colleagues at Faegre Drinker,” said Carson. “At this stage in my career, however, I was looking for an opportunity to be a part of a forward-looking boutique with an entrepreneurial spirit and a top-notch antitrust practice without the potential for conflicts that are inherent at AmLaw 100 firms.”

Carson is not the first Antitrust Division and BigLaw veteran to join Bona Law. Pat Pascarella, served with the Antitrust Division before spending a dozen years as chief antitrust counsel at a Fortune-10 company and another dozen years in BigLaw. It was in fact during Pat’s inhouse experience that Pat and Dylan first met. “What better endorsement can I provide of Dylan than the fact that we hired him to defend us when I was in-house,” said Pascarella. Pat and Dylan subsequently worked as partners to build a global antitrust practice at another firm. “It’s great to be putting the band back together!”

Bona Law is a boutique firm with over 15 lawyers in offices nationwide that focuses on antitrust and competition law in the United States and abroad. The firm boasts lawyers from top law schools and judicial clerkships who have worked at other leading global law firms, as government enforcers in the United States or Europe and held top in-house antitrust posts.

Bona Law CEO Jarod Bona welcomed Carson as a lawyer who “strengthens our stand-out team with more agency experience and trial leadership skills at a time when companies face greater antitrust scrutiny from the DOJ, FTC, and state attorneys general.”

Carson will work from the firm’s New York and San Diego offices.

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