GCR Names Howrey Simon Arnold & White World's 'Leading Antitrust Firm' for the Second Year in a Row.

Business Editors

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2001

The law firm of Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP has been named the world's leading antitrust/competition firm for the second year in row by Global Competition Review in its annual "GCR 100," a survey of the world's leading competition practices.

The "GCR 100" rates the top 100 competition firms based on size and qualitative factors. Howrey's antitrust practice placed first in both. Howrey has the one of the most experienced antitrust practice in the United States with the largest number of antitrust attorneys outside the federal government.

The GCR designation caps a strong year for Howrey's antitrust practice. Howrey attorneys successfully represented clients in many of the major antitrust matters of the past twelve months including the recent Pepsi-Quakers Oats merger and the Reuters acquisition of Bridge Information Systems.

Howrey clients have also been successfully represented in the most newsworthy antitrust event of the year, the GE-Honeywell merger, where Howrey attorneys drew on their international expertise, participating fully, both in the US and at the EC in behalf of a third party client.

Howrey focuses its antitrust practice on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, civil non-mergers enforcement matters and government criminal and civil investigations. The firm's antitrust and litigation practice is skilled in representing defendants and plaintiffs work in federal and state trial courts. The firm also excels in its understanding of intellectual property antitrust matters.

Over the past few years, Howrey's appellate practice has grown extensively in terms of attorneys and docket. The firm has appeared in the United States Supreme Court, in all United States Courts of Appeals and in numerous state appellate courts across the country.

Howrey attorneys and clients have unprecedented access to a wide array of in-house experts. "Each of the practices, whether under one umbrella or separate, has its own unique group of highly experienced attorneys as well as a finely tuned group of economists, financial analysts, and computer specialists, to maximize our clients' success rate" comments James F. Rill, Co-Chair, Antitrust.

In noting their success, the GCR pointed out that Howrey is poised to move into continental Europe, to Brussels, later this year. John Briggs, co-chair of Howrey's Antitrust practice, recently noted some of the trends represented by the GE-Honeywell decision in a Financial Times article. "US companies will have to take European regulators more seriously...there is no longer an assumption that once a deal is cleared by the US authorities, that's it," Briggs said. "Howrey is ready to do that," he added.

Founded in 1956, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP, is an international law firm with over 480 attorneys and more than 50 economic, financial, and environmental consultants. Howrey has offices in Washington, D.C; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, Irvine, Century City, San Diego and Menlo Park, California; Chicago, Illinois and London, England. As one of the top two most frequently used law firms in the nation among Fortune 250 companies according to the National Law Journal's survey of "Who Represents Corporate America?" Howrey is "Where Leaders Go" for expertise in intellectual property, antitrust, and complex business dispute resolution. For more information, visit our website: http://www.howrey.com.