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Elai Katz is a strategic antitrust lawyer with over two decades of experience handling mergers and acquisitions, litigation, counseling and government investigations. He represents buyers and sellers across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications, online retail, beverage and airline. Clients value Elai’s ability to provide concise and pragmatic advice, explaining complex issues in simple terms. They turn to him for a practical, creative and informed lens on their antitrust matters. Well regarded as a thought leader on antitrust trends, Elai writes an antitrust column in The New York Law Journal, edited The Antitrust Compliance Handbook and has written chapters in Antitrust Law Developments and New York Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law. He is a regular panelist and moderator at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting, as well as the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section Spring Meeting, where he covers timely topics such as merger enforcement, information exchange and financial market manipulation. At the start of his legal career, Elai clerked for Justice Mishael Cheshin of the Supreme Court of Israel. https://www.mwe.com/people/elai-katz/