Brandon Gould

Antitrust 

• Representing a leading investment bank in federal antitrust class actions alleging conspiracies to block startup trading platforms in the interest rate swaps and stock lending markets.
• Representing a leading investment bank in federal antitrust class action and state government false claims act qui tam suits alleging interest rate and benchmark manipulation for variable rate municipal bonds.
• Represented a leading investment bank in federal antitrust class action and foreign government investigation concerning alleged auction and secondary market manipulation for foreign sovereign debt.
• Represented major technology company in federal and state government antitrust investigations concerning prior social media acquisitions.
• Representing financial services technology provider in patent-related antitrust litigation brought by competitor in gaming industry.
• Representing pharmaceutical innovator in federal antitrust class action and multiple competitor suits alleging exclusion of generic drug competitors.
• Represented genetic biotechnology manufacturer in antitrust litigation brought by genetic sequencing device reseller.
• Represented leading defense contractor in regulatory review, investigation, and oversight of multi-billion dollar supplier acquisition.
• Represented professional sports franchise in antitrust litigation concerning ticketing secondary market practices.
• Represented investor group in evaluating and correctly predicting likely regulatory outcome and competitive considerations for Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Pro Bono

• Representing prominent economist amici providing empirical analyses in defense of government-created lawful migration pathways to the U.S. for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals against challenge by various state governments.
• Representing class of asylum seekers granted injunction on the basis of data analyses showing ICE’s failure to exercise required discretion to consider release of immigration detainees.
• Represented and representing Honduran and Guatemalan asylum seekers granted asylum, prosecutorial discretion and family reunification, and/or rehearing of asylum claims on remand from U.S. Court of Appeals.