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Scott Hammond

Scott
Hammond

Partner

CONTACT INFO

shammond@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 202.887.3684

FAX:+1 202.530.9582

Washington, D.C.

1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-5306 USA

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PRACTICE

Antitrust and Competition Litigation White Collar Defense and Investigations

BIOGRAPHY

Scott D. Hammond is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

Mr. Hammond brings exceptional experience to companies and executives subject to investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the world’s other major competition enforcement authorities.  Mr. Hammond is internationally recognized by senior competition officials and private practitioners as one of the leading figures behind the globalization of cartel enforcement.  His knowledge of and experience with the policies, practices and strategies of U.S. and foreign competition authorities positions him to represent companies and their executives in the potentially high-stakes arena of international cartel investigations and litigation.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Hammond served as a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor for 25 years.  Most recently, he served for eight years as the Antitrust Division’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement – the highest ranking career lawyer in the Antitrust Division.  In that capacity, he was responsible for supervising all of the Department of Justice’s domestic and international criminal antitrust investigations as well as overseeing all of the criminal antitrust litigation nationwide.  Mr. Hammond oversaw the work of more than 100 federal prosecutors and led criminal prosecutions in a wide range of industries, including auto parts, LIBOR, municipal bonds, LCD panels, air transportation, real estate foreclosure auctions, construction, chemicals and coastal freight.  He personally tried criminal antitrust cases and has directed the litigation of dozens of jury trials.  In addition, he assisted in overseeing all of the Antitrust Division’s criminal appellate work between 2005 and 2013.  More than 20 of his policy papers covering all aspects of antitrust investigations and prosecutions are currently listed on the Department of Justice’s website.

Mr. Hammond assists clients in antitrust and white-collar crime compliance, crisis management and government investigations across all industry sectors.  Mr. Hammond provides clients with know-how on the Department of Justice’s latest strategies for monitoring and uncovering antitrust and related federal violations which can also be employed by companies to design effective compliance programs as well as to ensure early detection of violations.  Timely detection can result in a complete pass from prosecution for companies and their executives under the Antitrust Division’s Corporate Leniency Program that Mr. Hammond helped implement and that he oversaw while at the Division.  In addition, Mr. Hammond was instrumental in the design and implementation of similar leniency programs in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.

Mr. Hammond’s practice focuses on the representation of clients in cross border investigations running in parallel with U.S. Department of Justice investigations. During his tenure at the Antitrust Division, he was the principal point of contact for cartel matters with senior competition officials abroad and oversaw the Department’s coordination of joint investigations with numerous jurisdictions, including the European Union, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.  As a result, Mr. Hammond is well versed in the anti-cartel enforcement investigative powers as well as the policies and practices of every major competition enforcement authority.  His experience allows clients to create a comprehensive and integrated global strategy to assess and mitigate their potential exposure to criminal, civil and administrative sanctions by enforcement agencies working in tandem across the globe.

Companies and high-level executives that are subject to U.S. Department of Justice criminal antitrust investigations will routinely face private damage lawsuits in the United States and, with growing frequency, elsewhere.  Mr. Hammond assists clients in navigating the intersection of government and private damage proceedings and litigation. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice often brings criminal antitrust charges in combination with other federal crimes.  While with the Department, Mr. Hammond supervised more than a hundred prosecutions involving wire fraud, mail fraud, FCPA, money laundering, commercial bribery, obstruction of justice and other federal crimes.

Mr. Hammond has been nationally recognized by Chambers USA as a leading attorney in the areas of Antitrust: Litigation, and Antitrust: Cartel from 2015 – 2022, where clients note that “[h]e should be your first call if you have any antitrust issue, especially cartel or price fixing-related,” and that he “has great contacts given his former DOJ antitrust role and he’s not scared to think outside the box.”  He has also been ranked by Chambers Global as a leading attorney in the area of Antitrust: Cartel from 2017 – 2023.  The Legal 500 – United States named him a 2022 Hall of Fame honoree for Antitrust – Cartel.  In addition, Mr. Hammond has been named a District of Columbia “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation every year since 2016 and is listed as a 2023 “Litigation Star” for Competition/Antitrust.  He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the field of Antitrust Law every year since 2015.  Mr. Hammond was featured as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America” for 2022.  Mr. Hammond is recognized as a Competition Thought Leader in multiple guides published by Who’s Who Legal including, in 2023, when named to their “Thought Leaders: Global Elite” list for Competition for the fifth consecutive year.  He has also been featured in Global Competition Review’s International Who’s Who: Competition Lawyers.  In 2015, The National Law Journal named Mr. Hammond to its Regulatory & Compliance Trailblazers list for his role in developing and implementing the DOJ’s Corporate Leniency Program during his time as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement. While with the Department of Justice, Mr. Hammond received the Presidential Rank Award (the highest honor conferred on federal government executives), the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, the Antitrust Division’s Award of Distinction (twice) as well as numerous other citations.

Mr. Hammond and his wife Anne, have three sons, Niklas, Lukas and Jakob.

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina - 1988 Juris Doctor

University of North Carolina - 1985 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar

North Carolina Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - March 15, 2023 | UK Antitrust Authority Releases Guidance on Sustainability Collaborations
Firm News - January 11, 2023 | Who’s Who Legal 2023 Thought Leaders – Competition Recommends Six Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - January 9, 2023 | Who’s Who Legal Recognizes 39 Gibson Dunn Partners in its Inaugural Thought Leaders USA Guide
Firm News - January 4, 2023 | Who’s Who Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2023 Recognizes Eleven Gibson Dunn Partners
Client Alert - November 9, 2022 | DOJ Antitrust Secures Conviction for Criminal Monopolization
Client Alert - October 31, 2022 | DOJ Antitrust Secures First Conviction for No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Conduct
Firm News - October 4, 2022 | Lawdragon Names 38 Partners Among its 2023 500 Leading Litigators in America
Firm News - August 2, 2022 | Who’s Who Legal Competition 2022 Recognizes 14 Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - June 22, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2022 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - April 12, 2022 | U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Host Antitrust Enforcers Summit
Client Alert - October 26, 2021 | EU Competition Commissioner Signals Tougher Enforcement of No-Poach and Other Labor Market Agreements
Firm News - July 28, 2021 | Who’s Who Legal 2021 Recognizes Gibson Dunn Partners in Competition, Hospitality and Product Liability Defense
Firm News - June 29, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2021 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - January 19, 2021 | 2020 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements and Deferred Prosecution Agreements
Firm News - January 14, 2021 | Who’s Who Legal 2021 Recognizes Gibson Dunn Partners in Arbitration, Tax and Competition
Client Alert - December 15, 2020 | U.S. Congress Passes the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2019
Firm News - December 15, 2020 | Who’s Who Legal Competition 2020 Recognizes 18 Partners
Webcasts - October 27, 2020 | Webcast: In-house Guidance for Managing Non-U.S. Antitrust Investigations
Firm News - July 6, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2020 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - June 24, 2020 | Expiration of Federal Law Limiting Antitrust Civil Exposure Creates Uncertainty for Cartel Self-Reporting
Publications - April 20, 2020 | Takeaways from the DOJ’s ACPERA roundtable and proposed next steps
Firm News - January 30, 2020 | Nine Gibson Dunn Partners Named as Thought Leaders in Construction and Competition by Who’s Who Legal
Webcasts - December 4, 2019 | Webcast: Preparing for Enhanced Antitrust Enforcement in Government Procurement
Client Alert - November 11, 2019 | DOJ Announces a New Strike Force to Combat Antitrust Misconduct in Government Procurement
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Lawyers Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America® 2020
Client Alert - July 23, 2019 | DOJ Antitrust Division Will Now Consider DPAs for Companies Demonstrating “Good Corporate Citizenship”
Firm News - July 11, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2019 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - June 7, 2019 | Nineteen Gibson Dunn attorneys recognized by Who’s Who Legal Competition 2019
Publications - May 1, 2019 | Cartel Leniency in Hong Kong
Firm News - February 7, 2019 | Nine Gibson Dunn partners recognized by Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders Competition
Firm News - July 9, 2018 | Who’s Who Legal Recognizes 24 Gibson Dunn Attorneys
Firm News - June 18, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2018 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - March 30, 2017 | Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Potential Impact on the Development of Antitrust Law
Client Alert - January 10, 2017 | 2016 Year-End Criminal Antitrust and Competition Law Update
Client Alert - December 6, 2016 | Antitrust in the Trump Administration
Client Alert - July 11, 2016 | 2016 Mid-Year Criminal Antitrust and Competition Law Update
Webcasts - January 20, 2016 | Webcast – Challenges in Compliance and Corporate Governance – 2016
Client Alert - January 7, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Criminal Antitrust and Competition Law Update
Article - December 1, 2015 | Leniency Under the Hong Kong Competition Ordinance
Client Alert - November 3, 2015 | The Final Countdown Begins for Hong Kong’s Competition Regime: Time to Comply
Article - October 1, 2015 | Dispelling the Perception that Legal Privilege impedes Antitrust Enforcement – The US Experience
Client Alert - July 13, 2015 | 2015 Mid-Year Criminal Antitrust and Competition Law Update
Client Alert - January 8, 2015 | 2014 Year-End Criminal Antitrust and Competition Law Update
Client Alert - December 10, 2014 | New Swiss/EU Cooperation Agreement Creates Enhanced Enforcement Opportunities for Antitrust Regulators, but Leaves Uncertainty for Companies
Webcasts - January 29, 2014 | 10th Annual Webcast Briefing on Challenges in Compliance and Corporate Governance
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