Cynthia (“Cindy”) Richman is Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.  Her practice focuses on trial and appellate litigation, class actions, grand jury and civil investigations, merger review, regulatory and competition policy matters, and antitrust counseling.  Over the past two decades Cindy has litigated, including through trial, “bet the company” cases touching almost every aspect of antitrust in a wide range of industries. Cindy’s practice has a strong focus on the tech sector, network industries, and digital platforms. 

Cindy has been repeatedly recognized by her peers for inclusion in Chambers USA’s Antitrust: Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America’s  Litigation: Antitrust, and in the U.S. Legal 500  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. Global Competition Review named Cindy to its list of Top 100 Women in Antitrust 2021; it also shortlisted her for GCR’s 2021 Litigator of the Year award. Who’s Who Legal  has repeatedly recognized Cindy for her “impressive advocacy skills” and “strong track record in important cases.”

A sample of Cindy’s recent and ongoing representations include:

• Lead counsel to major technology company in numerous class actions and private damages actions in cases around the country alleging violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act;  
• Co-led the team that successfully defended Apple Inc. against antitrust claims in the three-week Epic v. Apple  trial that The New York Times  referred to as “one of the biggest antitrust trials in Silicon Valley’s history”; and
• Co-lead counsel for Swisher International in Trendsettah USA, Inc. v. Swisher International, Inc., 31 F.4th 1124 (9th Cir. 2022), winning order setting aside jury verdict on Section 2 monopolization claim based on plaintiffs’ fraud.

Cindy is an active member of the antitrust bar. Among other activities, she serves as the Vice-Chair of the Unilateral Conduct Committee of the ABA’s Antitrust Section, is a member of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Unilateral Conduct Working Group, authors a yearly paper for PLI on monopolization, speaks widely on a range of antitrust topics and has contributed to leading antitrust journals and treatises including Antitrust Law Developments, Antitrust Source, The Antitrust Adviser, and The Antitrust Report.

Cindy 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. Cindy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude  from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1998.

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