Franklin M. Rubinstein

Partner

Antitrust and Competition

Comprehensive Antitrust Experience

Franklin represents clients in several areas, including merger review, government and criminal investigations, litigation, and antitrust-related counseling.
Experience with a Wide Range of Industries

Franklin has represented a diverse set of clients in the software, computer hardware, pharmaceutical, medical device, gaming, automobile, natural resource, internet, and media industries.
A Recognized Practitioner

Franklin has been recognized among the leading antitrust practitioners in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

Franklin Rubinstein is an antitrust partner in the Washington, D.C., office. His practice encompasses a wide variety of antitrust matters, including mergers and acquisitions, investigations by the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, litigation, criminal investigations, and counseling on issues such as distribution, monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, price-fixing, and antitrust compliance. Franklin has represented a diverse set of clients in the software, computer hardware, pharmaceutical, medical device, gaming, automobile, natural resource, internet, and media industries.

Prior to joining the firm, Franklin was an associate at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.

Experience

Prior to joining the firm, Franklin was an associate at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.

Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 2001Winner, Hispanic National Bar Association's 2001 Moot Court Competition; Recipient, Thomas R. Mulroy Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy, University of Chicago Moot Court
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1997

Honors

Recognized in the 2021 edition of Global Competition Review/Who's Who Legal - Competition
Named in the 2015, 2016, and 2017 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, in which he is recognized for his "strong reputation in the field, particularly for his representation of blue-chip technology companies" and sources praised his "sound judgment" and described him as "smart and even-tempered"

Admissions

Bar of the District of Columbia
State Bar of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Credentials

Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 2001Winner, Hispanic National Bar Association's 2001 Moot Court Competition; Recipient, Thomas R. Mulroy Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy, University of Chicago Moot Court
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1997

Honors

Recognized in the 2021 edition of Global Competition Review/Who's Who Legal - Competition
Named in the 2015, 2016, and 2017 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, in which he is recognized for his "strong reputation in the field, particularly for his representation of blue-chip technology companies" and sources praised his "sound judgment" and described him as "smart and even-tempered"

Admissions

Bar of the District of Columbia
State Bar of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Select Publications

Co-author with B. Labow, "U.S. Unilateral Conduct," The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2014, Global Competition Review, 2014
Co-author with C. Biggio and S. Sher, "Brocade/McDATA: Structural Presumptions Didn't Tell the Whole Story," The Threshold, Spring 2007, Vol. 7, No. 2

Insights

Select Publications

Co-author with B. Labow, "U.S. Unilateral Conduct," The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2014, Global Competition Review, 2014
Co-author with C. Biggio and S. Sher, "Brocade/McDATA: Structural Presumptions Didn't Tell the Whole Story," The Threshold, Spring 2007, Vol. 7, No. 2

Recent Insights

News Articles

On October 3, 2022, Lawdragon released its inaugural guide Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America dedicated to attorneys who excel at representing corporations and other organizations in litigating claims involving antitrust, securities, financial, M&A, intellectual property and patents, product liability, mass tort, white collar, government investigations, and energy disputes. Attorneys were selected based on a number of submissions and independent research focused on recent cases and defense verdicts or settlements, as well as attorneys who have sustained excellence in trials.

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On April 5, 2022, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Senior Of Counsel Jonathan Jacobson were honored at Global Competition Review’s 12^th Annual GCR Awards, which recognized the world’s leading antitrust lawyers, economists, and enforcers, as well as the biggest cases of 2021.

Wilson Sonsini—alongside Freshfields, Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, Ropes & Gray, and Williams & Connolly—won the award for “Behavioural Matter of the Year for the Americas” for its work defending Google against investigations from the Department of Justice and state enforcers. The team representing Google in the matter includes antitrust partners Susan Creighton, Wendy Waszmer, Franklin Rubinstein, Brad Tennis, and Tina Sessions.

In addition, Jonathan was recognized as “Litigator of the Year” for his work on several outstanding matters, including his defense of Google in the Google Digital Advertising antitrust litigation and his successful representation of two Chinese vitamin exporters before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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