Since joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Chris has overseen the antitrust regulatory work in more than 900 mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures—many of which involved formal investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the European Commission, and other international competition agencies. The firm's record of success, including Hewlett Packard's $18.7 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer in 2002, has been unparalleled: No Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati transaction has ever been blocked or abandoned due to an antitrust challenge by the Department of Justice or Federal Trade Commission. Early in his career, Chris served as a litigator on the watershed IBM antitrust cases.

In addition to a wide range of complex business and intellectual property litigation, including Lotus v. Borland, Chris has handled antitrust suits involving alleged price discrimination, refusals to deal, distributor terminations, group boycotts, monopolies, state law Cartwright Act claims, grand jury investigations, and price fixing. Chris wrote the firm's Antitrust & Trade Regulation Primer for attorneys and clients, and regularly counsels many of its private and public clients on antitrust and intellectual property issues arising in the course of marketing, distribution, pricing, and standard-setting activities.

Named a Northern California "Super Lawyer" in 2004-2009 by Law & Politics magazine, Chris also was cited in the 2003-2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, commended as "a great lawyer" and for his ability to "establish an immediate rapport, trust, and confidence, in a nonadversarial way." Chris has consistently been listed in Best Lawyers in America. He also was listed as one of the "Top-Ranking Competition Lawyers in Europe and Northern America" in the Practical Law Company's Global Competition Handbook (2004-2005), earned a "highly recommended" listing in the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2007-2008), and has been cited in Legal Media Group's Euromoney Guide to World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers and Practical Law Company's Cross-Border Competition Handbook (2009).

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Chris has written extensively over the years for publications such as the Antitrust Law Journal, the Antitrust Report, Corporate Counsel Outlook, and the International Business Lawyer. He teaches an antitrust/intellectual property course for the Santa Clara University School of Law LL.M. program, has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and taught trial advocacy at U.C. Hastings College of the Law. He is a regular speaker at American Bar Association and International Bar Association events in the United States and Europe. Chris also served in the Air Force JAG Corps as a military judge.

• J.D., New York University School of Law
  Root-Tilden Scholar; Managing Editor, New York University Law Review
• B.S, United States Air Force Academy
  With Honors

• Member, Advisory Board, Santa Clara University, High Technology Law Institute
• Board Member and Past President, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
• Member, IP Reform Task Force, ABA Antitrust Section
• American Arbitration Association Large Complex Case Panel
• Federal Court Early Neutral Evaluator, Northern District of California

• Named in Practical Law Company's Cross-Border Competition Handbook 2009
• Selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists
• Named in the 2008 and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of Best Lawyers in America
• Selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of Who's Who Legal: California
• AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

• "Tumultuous Times: The Escalating U.S. Debate on the Role of Antitrust in Standard Setting," Competition Law International, February 2009
• "IP Issues in the Antitrust Treatment of Mergers," The Berkeley Conference on Antitrust in the Technology Economy, June 9, 2005
• "Lessons from Trinko for a Consolidating Telecom Industry," 16th Annual IBA Communications and Competition Law Conference, Madrid, May 24-25, 2005
• "What United States v. Oracle Says about High-Tech Merger Review in the U.S.," with Scott Sher, corporatefinancemag.com, May 2005
• More publications
• Please see wsgr.com for a complete list of publications.

• Bar of the District of Columbia
• State Bar of California
• Several U.S. District Courts

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• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Military Appeals
• U.S. Supreme Court