Craig Reiser is a member of Axinn’s Executive Committee and serves as the firm’s General Counsel. Clients turn to Craig when reputations are on the line. He excels in defending high-profile, high-value, and high-complexity commercial claims on behalf of both companies and individuals. Known for his sharp legal insight, Craig swiftly identifies the critical legal issues in each case and crafts winning strategies tailored to his clients’ unique needs. His approach has earned not only impressive results but also the lasting confidence of those he represents.

John DeQ. Briggs is one of the most accomplished competition lawyers of his generation. Since 1973, John has been antitrust and litigation counsel of choice for dozens of major companies in the United States, Asia, Europe and Scandinavia. Client demand for his work has mainly focused on antitrust, M&A and complex civil litigation, including especially matters implicating shareholder liability and jurisdiction based on principles of veil piercing, agency and alter ego. Prior to joining Axinn, John served for more than 10 years as the Chair of the antitrust practice for Howrey LLP, during his tenure the largest private antitrust practice in the world. From 2009 until 2019 he was an adjunct Professor of International Competition Law at George Washington University.

Craig Minerva, a former lead attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), counsels clients on all aspects of civil antitrust matters with a focus on leading high-stakes, multinational transaction reviews.

Sandhya Taneja is an associate in Axinn's Antitrust practice group. Her practice focuses on merger analysis, government investigations, civil litigation, and antitrust counseling and compliance.

Having previously served as in-house competition counsel for both Google and Lyft, Drew’s expertise is in providing clients practical, concise, and business-savvy antitrust advice so that clients can focus on what is most important – their business – while minimizing antitrust risk. Drew has advised clients (including internal c-suite executives) on a wide variety of antitrust issues that span Section 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, including: developing competitive intelligence policies, participating in industry associations (including benchmarking and Noerr-Pennington petitioning conduct), refusals to deal, competitor partnerships, M&A due diligence, investor relations calls (signaling risk), bundled discounting and other pricing practices, product design changes, and proper information sharing practices. Drew has also designed and implemented company-wide antitrust compliance policies and trained thousands of business stakeholders on proper antitrust practices.

The National Law Journal selected Rick to its inaugural list of Antitrust Trailblazers. This honor was based on accomplishments during his long tenure at the FTC, where Rick served in key roles (e.g., lead counsel, manager) in both federal and administrative trials and investigations involving some of the most important FTC merger and non-merger cases of the past twenty plus years. For example, Rick successfully served as lead trial attorney in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners, a case that the Supreme Court affirmed. In addition, Rick had principal roles in Toys "R" Us, Three Tenors, Heinz, Rambus, Abbott Labs, Unocal, Intel, Dell, Whole Foods and Wright Medical. Rick currently serves as antitrust counsel for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and represents a caustic soda manufacturer in class action cases brought by direct and indirect purchasers alleging price fixing and output reductions. He also played a key role in in getting Section 1 claims dismissed against Stanley Black & Decker in a matter involving collusion and standard setting activities.

Craig Reiser is a member of Axinn’s Executive Committee and serves as the firm’s General Counsel. Clients turn to Craig when reputations are on the line. He excels in defending high-profile, high-value, and high-complexity commercial claims on behalf of both companies and individuals. Known for his sharp legal insight, Craig swiftly identifies the critical legal issues in each case and crafts winning strategies tailored to his clients’ unique needs. His approach has earned not only impressive results but also the lasting confidence of those he represents.

John DeQ. Briggs is one of the most accomplished competition lawyers of his generation. Since 1973, John has been antitrust and litigation counsel of choice for dozens of major companies in the United States, Asia, Europe and Scandinavia. Client demand for his work has mainly focused on antitrust, M&A and complex civil litigation, including especially matters implicating shareholder liability and jurisdiction based on principles of veil piercing, agency and alter ego. Prior to joining Axinn, John served for more than 10 years as the Chair of the antitrust practice for Howrey LLP, during his tenure the largest private antitrust practice in the world. From 2009 until 2019 he was an adjunct Professor of International Competition Law at George Washington University.