Meaghan Thomas-Kennedy

Partner

San Francisco
meaghan.thomas-kennedy@lw.com
+1.415.395.8041

PRACTICES

  • Antitrust & Competition
  • Litigation & Trial

INDUSTRIES

  • Entertainment, Sports & Media
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Retail & Consumer Products
  • Technology

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • California
  • New York

EDUCATION

  • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2011
  • BA, Smith College, 2005
    magna cum laude

PROFILE

Meaghan Thomas-Kennedy advises clients on high-stakes antitrust litigation matters, drawing on her experience both as in-house counsel and representing clients in multiple industries.

Meaghan helps clients navigate a range of antitrust matters, including:

  • Government monopolization investigations and litigation
  • Conduct investigations 
  • Complex class actions, particularly in relation to information exchange and algorithmic pricing
  • Merger challenges brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  • Existential business disputes

Meaghan returns to Latham with a wealth of experience from her previous role at Apple, where she led the strategy for the company’s North American antitrust litigation docket, was responsible for the company’s highest-risk antitrust cases, and provided strategic counsel on a broad range of complex litigation matters. 

Meaghan draws on her in-house counsel perspective to advise tech clients on the design and launch of new products, to navigate the intersection of intellectual property and competition law, and to craft docket-wide litigation management strategies.

Complementing her commercial work, Meaghan serves on the Board of the First District Appellate Project in Oakland, California and is an active member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and the California Lawyers Association.

EXPERIENCE

Meaghan’s experience includes representing:

  • A major technology company in dozens of antitrust matters litigated in district courts and courts of appeal* 
  • NVIDIA Corporation in its US$40 billion acquisition of Arm Technologies
  • A major pharmaceutical company in connection with DOJ and FTC reviews of multiple acquisitions* 
  • StarKist Co. in a civil multidistrict antitrust litigation wherein purchasers of packaged tuna allege that StarKist Co. violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act and various state antitrust and consumer protection laws 
  • Olam Peanut Shelling Company in a class action in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleging anticompetitive conduct in runner peanuts market 
  • A major technology company seeking amnesty for a violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act* 
  • A major consumer electronics company under investigation by DOJ and foreign enforcement agencies* 
  • A publisher in connection with domestic and international investigations concerning the use of benchmarking data in an alleged price-fixing scheme* 
  • A hospital system in a civil lawsuit alleging market allocation and concerted refusal to deal 
  • A trade association in connection with compliance audits and responses to subpoenas* 

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham