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Bonnie Lau Named Top Antitrust Lawyer by Daily Journal

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The Daily Journal has named partner Bonnie Lau on its list of Top Antitrust Lawyers for 2021. The recognition, which honors leading California lawyers who specialize in plaintiff, defense, and government antitrust work, highlights Bonnie’s outstanding professional track record. 

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The Daily Journal has named partner Bonnie Lau on its list of Top Antitrust Lawyers for 2021. The recognition, which honors leading California lawyers who specialize in plaintiff, defense, and government antitrust work, highlights Bonnie’s outstanding professional track record. A dynamic litigator and trial lawyer, Bonnie has defended companies in high-stakes litigation involving claims of price-fixing, monopolization, output suppression, predatory pricing, and group boycott, as well as prosecuted antitrust counterclaims in patent, IP infringement, and trade secret matters. She has tried several bench and jury trials to verdict, and recently served as lead trial counsel in an antitrust class action jury trial. Bonnie leverages her over 15 years of experience across a range of industries defending clients in complex class actions, multidistrict litigations, and domestic and international enforcement actions.She is also a leader on diversity and inclusion (D+I) and devotes herself to advancing Asian Pacific American (APA) and D+I issues in the legal community, currently serving as chair of the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity Alumni and co-chair of the NAPABA Women’s Leadership Network. She is enthusiastic about combining her dual passions for antitrust law and D+I in her next role as co-chair for the Board of Women.Connected for the ABA Antitrust Law Section.In recognition of her professional excellence, Bonnie received the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Best Under 40 Award in 2020 and won the 2021 Antitrust and Competition Lawyer of the Year Award at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Women in Business Law Awards.Profiles for all of the winning lawyers have been featured in a special Top Antitrust Lawyers issue of Daily Journal published on November 17, 2021.

Bonnie Lau Named Top Antitrust Lawyer by Daily Journal

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Bonnie Lau helps clients navigate internal and government antitrust investigations, enforcement proceedings, and class action litigation. Clients commend Bonnie as “absolutely outstanding; a practical, responsive and adept adviser” and “a fantastic lawyer, detail-oriented and able to handle complex matters with ease and good humor.” (Chambers USA, 2022.)Bonnie is the co-head of Morrison Foerster’s San Francisco litigation department. A dynamic trial lawyer, Bonnie has significant experience defending class actions, multidistrict litigations, and enforcement actions, and deftly handles international competition investigations and enforcement issues. She advises clients across a range of industries that face government scrutiny or allegations of anticompetitive conduct, including technology, manufacturing, media, telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services.Bonnie has tried several bench and jury trials to verdict, and recently served as lead trial counsel in an antitrust class action jury trial with over a billion dollars of exposure. She has represented companies in antitrust and related complex litigation involving claims of price-fixing, wage-fixing, no-poach conduct, output suppression, monopolization, refusal to deal, predatory pricing, and group boycott, and prosecuted antitrust counterclaims in patent infringement and IP matters. Bonnie has also represented clients in various complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution matters involving unfair competition, RICO, TCPA, and intellectual property claims.Bonnie has received numerous accolades for her legal work. She was most recently named as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California” and a “Top Antitrust Lawyer” by the Daily Journal in 2022, as well as an “Up and Coming” attorney for Antitrust – California by Chambers USA in 2022. She won the “Antitrust/Competition Lawyer of the Year” award at the Euromoney America’s Women in Business Law Awards in 2021.Bonnie devotes herself to promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal community, currently serving as co-chair of the Women’s Leadership Network for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, co-chair of the board of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Women Connected, and former chair of the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity Alumni. For her contributions, Bonnie was named to the National Association of Women Lawyers’ (NAWL) Rising List for 2022 and selected by Chambers Diversity and Inclusion as a 2022 finalist for “Lawyer of the Year.”<h4>Representative Matters</h4><ul><li>Defending a Japanese technology and manufacturing client in a consolidated class action litigation alleging federal and state antitrust and consumer protection claims and related Department of Justice Antitrust Division price-fixing conspiracy investigation and criminal proceedings. Managing parallel international class actions and coordinating defense of foreign regulatory antitrust investigations.</li><li>Defending the largest broadcast television station operator in the United States in a putative class action alleging price-fixing of television advertising in multiple markets nationwide.</li><li>Defending steel manufacturer and fabricator in monopolization, predatory pricing, unfair competition, and tortious interference federal and state claims.</li><li>Representing technology startup company in monopolization, refusal to deal, tortious interference, and unfair competition federal and state counterclaims.</li><li>Representing a major healthcare company in a criminal investigation.</li><li>Represented SoftBank and Sprint in federal civil litigation proceedings in California in connection with Sprint’s merger with T-Mobile.</li><li>Represented SoftBank and ARM in FTC proceedings in connection with Nvidia’s potential acquisition.</li><li>Won an en banc Eleventh Circuit decision affirming dismissal with prejudice of federal antitrust claims in a multidistrict litigation comprised of 24 individual and putative class action cases across the country that allege antitrust, RICO, and/or steering violations against over a hundred major automobile insurance carriers.</li><li>Won an appeal, defeated three separate attempts to certify a class, excluded expert methodology, and won complete summary judgment of individual claims in antitrust and unfair competition class action against a major automobile insurer, alleging a conspiracy to charge anticompetitive premiums to policyholders.</li><li>Prosecuted an antitrust counterclaim in a patent infringement lawsuit by a non-practicing entity. Following the trial of the patent infringement claims, and a post-judgment remittitur of the award, won complete victory in the Federal Circuit, which reversed the jury’s finding of infringement and vacated the award of damages.</li><li>Prosecuted a Walker Process antitrust counterclaim in a patent and intellectual property infringement lawsuit.</li></ul>

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