Buzzetti, Albert

Keith L. Butler is a member of the firm and Head of the Antitrust Practice.  An experienced antitrust lawyer and complex commercial litigator, Keith has been representing a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and individuals, for more than a decade.

                
Mr. Butler has maintained a full service antitrust practice that has included civil and criminal litigation (including extensive experience in price-fixing matters), merger clearance, government investigations, and counseling.  Notably, Mr. Butler currently represents clients seeking recovery of antitrust damages in In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation as well as other price-fixing matters, he played a leading role in obtaining FTC clearance for Grifols' $4 billion acquisition of Talecris, and he was a core member of Oracle's successful antitrust trial team in the government's landmark challenge to Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. Other areas of complex commercial litigation Mr. Butler handles include unfair competition, securities, and common law business disputes; he has also had a number of successes in appellate matters.

Mr. Butler’s clients span a wide range of industries, including biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, health care, information technology and the Internet, financial services, insurance and reinsurance, entertainment, textiles, lodging and gaming, real estate, utilities, and waste services.

Mr. Butler has published widely; his antitrust writings have appeared in Law 360, Global Competition Review, and Competition Policy International, among others.

Mr. Butler began his legal career at Latham & Watkins, and, before joining Strange & Carpenter, practiced most recently at Proskauer Rose.  Prior to practicing law, Mr. Butler was a professor of philosophy at several colleges and universities, including Washington University and the College of William and Mary.