David Garcia is a partner in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Century City office, where he is also the Office Managing Partner. He is a litigator with a broad background in complex civil litigation for major U.S. companies, including extensive class action and multidistrict litigation experience. His practice focuses principally on antitrust litigation and counseling with particular emphasis on the entertainment industry, provider side healthcare mergers and the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property in litigation and joint ventures.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Garcia's antitrust litigation experience includes price fixing cartel defense, patent related monopolization claims and representation of clients in connection with civil and criminal investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He counsels extensively on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and competitor collaborations in healthcare, for a broad range of hospitals and doctor groups throughout the U.S. including second requests and divestiture negotiations with both the FTC and DoJ. His broad ranging antitrust litigation background also includes major matters involving standard setting, state action immunity, and contested mergers. He also counsels and litigates in a variety of vertical distribution situations, including dealer termination, vertical pricing restrictions, franchise termination disputes and counseling and litigation involving multilevel marketing organizations. Finally he counsels joint ventures in the formation stage and through ongoing antitrust monitoring.
