Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Grows Antitrust Team

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced that Beau Buffier has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. He will be a member of the antitrust practice.

An accomplished antitrust and competition attorney, Buffier focuses on large US mergers, federal and state antitrust investigations, complex litigation, and grand jury matters. He is also experienced in coordinating global antitrust investigations in both merger and conduct cases before the UK Competition Authority (CMA) and the European Commission.

“Beau is nationally recognized as an antitrust attorney who, like many of our antitrust partners, has an impressive combination of public agency and private law firm experience,” said Doug Clark, managing partner at Wilson Sonsini. “He also can leverage his experience with U.S. antitrust and EU competition issues to provide expert advice to clients with sophisticated needs on different fronts. Beau is an excellent addition to our renowned and ever-expanding antitrust team, and we are very pleased to welcome him to the firm.”

Wilson Sonsini’s antitrust practice has steadily grown in recent years, with the firm hiring a series of experienced antitrust partners since 2018. On November 5, the firm announced that Justina “Tina” Sessions had joined the practice in San Francisco.

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