Caroline Black is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.
She advises clients on all aspects of antitrust law, with a particular focus on counseling clients on antitrust compliance as well as merger and non-merger investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Caroline also has experience with complex private antitrust litigation. Her antitrust experience spans a wide range of industries, including technology, consumer goods, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, industrials, energy, and financial services.
Caroline currently serves as a Vice Chair in the ABA’s Antitrust Section. Caroline has also previously spent time at the General Court of the European Court of Justice, where she worked on novel competition law cases.
Caroline received her law degree from Columbia Law School.
Representative matters include*
- American Express Company in its $400 million acquisition of Tock from Squarespace
- Cadence Bank in its $6 billion merger of equals with BancorpSouth Bank
- EchoStar Corporation, parent company of DISH Network Corporation, in its $256 million divestiture of certain Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands spectrum assets to Liberty Latin America Ltd.
- First Horizon in its merger with IBERIABANK
- Fiserv, Inc. in its $650 million acquisition of Finxact
- Guardant Health in connection with Illumina’s $8 billion acquisition of GRAIL
- U.S. Bank on its strategic alliance with State Farm
- RPX Corp. in an antitrust/IP dispute brought by Xockets, alleging software licensing collusion with Microsoft and NVIDIA
- Seagen in its $43 billion acquisition by Pfizer
- SunTrust in its $66 billion merger of equals with BB&T
- Tadano Ltd. in its $223 million acquisition of Manitex International
*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.
Caroline is admitted to practice in New York and California.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2018 Juris Doctor
- Brigham Young University - 2015 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar
- New York Bar