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Cynthia Richman

Cynthia
Richman

Partner

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[email protected]

TEL:+1 202.955.8234

FAX:+1 202.530.9691

Washington, D.C.

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

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PRACTICE

Antitrust and Competition Appellate and Constitutional Law Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Cynthia (“Cindy”) Richman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

Who’s Who Legal  recently named Ms. Richman a “Future Leader” in Competition, noting that she is known for her “impressive advocacy skills” and “strong track record in important cases.” Ms. Richman has been repeatedly recognized by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America©  in the field of Litigation: Antitrust and U.S. Legal 500  has identified her as a “Leading Lawyer” in the areas of merger control, cartels and civil litigation/class action defense. She was also named in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America” for 2023 and 2024 editions. In 2019, she was recognized by Benchmark Litigation as a “Future Litigation Star” in Washington, D.C. She was also recognized in 2016 by Law360  as a Rising Star in the Competition category, and in 2014, Ms. Richman was named by The National Law Journal  and Legal Times  as one of DC’s Rising Stars. This award is given to 40-under-40 private, government and public interest advocacy attorneys who are leaders in law.

Ms. Richman has experience handling a wide variety of antitrust matters in a broad range of industries, such as microprocessors and other high-technology products, airlines, retail food services, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, defense, travel, and music. Her practice includes defending companies before state and federal courts, including appellate courts, in matters alleging a range of antitrust-based claims, such as price-fixing, tying, bundling, and other single-firm conduct theories. In addition, over the past decade, Ms. Richman has been continuously involved in representing targets of international cartel and antitrust-related grand jury investigations by the DOJ and antitrust enforcers around the world.

Ms. Richman has also represented clients in general litigation and appellate matters. She was part of the team that convinced the D.C. Circuit to vacate a rule promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that restricted the number of subscribers cable companies can serve (Comcast Corp. v. FCC, 579 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2009)) and also assisted with a successful challenge to an FCC Order finding that that a cable company violated the program carriage rules and discriminated against an unaffiliated video programming vendor (Comcast Cable Commc’ns, LLC v. FCC, 717 F.3d 982 (D.C. Cir. 2013)).

Ms. Richman is an active member of the antitrust bar. Among other activities, she serves as the Vice-Chair of the International Committee of the ABA’s Antitrust Section, authors a yearly paper for PLI on monopolization, speaks widely on a range of antitrust topics and contributes to leading antitrust journals and treatises including Antitrust Source, The Antitrust Adviser, and The Antitrust Report.

Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Ms. Richman served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She received her law degree magna cum laude  in 2002 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Executive Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Ms. Richman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude  from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1998.

Ms. Richman is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

EDUCATION

Georgetown University - 2002 Juris Doctor

St. Mary's College of Maryland - 1998 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar

Maryland Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - September 27, 2023 | FTC Challenges Roll-Up Strategy as Illegal Monopolization
Firm News - September 8, 2023 | Lawdragon Names 44 Partners Among 2024 500 Leading Litigators in America
Firm News - September 7, 2023 | Who’s Who Legal Competition 2023 Recognizes 13 Gibson Dunn Partners
Firm News - June 23, 2023 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2023 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - November 14, 2022 | FTC Announces Broader Vision of Its Section 5 Authority to Address Unfair Methods of Competition
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
Article - July 27, 2022 | Enhanced antitrust enforcement extends to scrutiny of interlocking directorates
Firm News - June 22, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2022 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - May 2, 2022 | DOJ Antitrust Division Head Promises Litigation to Break Up Director Interlocks
Firm News - September 28, 2021 | Rachel Brass and Cynthia Richman Named Among GCR’s Top Women in Antitrust 2021
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
Firm News - December 15, 2020 | Who’s Who Legal Competition 2020 Recognizes 18 Partners
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
Firm News - February 28, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Case Named Top Verdict of the Year
Webcasts - January 24, 2020 | Webcast: The Price is Right (or Wrong): An Antitrust Update on the Treatment of Pricing Practices Under Sherman Act Section 2
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
Publications - July 9, 2019 | Balancing the Interests of Antitrust and Labor Laws
Firm News - June 7, 2019 | Nineteen Gibson Dunn attorneys recognized by Who’s Who Legal Competition 2019
Webcasts - May 23, 2019 | Webcast: Is It Bad To Be Big? An Antitrust Update On Monopoly Law And Enforcement
Client Alert - November 6, 2018 | Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim and FTC Chairman Joe Simons Testify on Antitrust Enforcement Before Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust
Client Alert - October 1, 2018 | DOJ Antitrust Head Signals Move to Shorter, Less Burdensome Merger Review
Article - September 26, 2018 | Lexology Navigator – Cartels
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
Article - October 1, 2015 | The Need to Establish Absent Class Member Standing in Antitrust Class Actions
Client Alert - August 24, 2010 | U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Issue Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines
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