Lief, Jason A.

Peggy Ward practices exclusively in the antitrust area of law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, counseling, compliance programs, and nonmerger government investigations. She has represented clients in a variety of industries, including health care, PC hardware, software, life sciences, energy, telecommunications, and broadcasting. Representative clients include: Bayer, Chevron, Clarian Health, Clear Channel, Electrolux, Federated Department Stores, Intuit, Live Nation, SAP, Sprint Nextel, and Sutter Health.

From 2001 through 2003, Peggy worked on antitrust matters at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While serving as senior counsel to Assistant Attorneys General Charles A. James and R. Hewitt Pate, she worked on a number of merger and nonmerger antitrust investigations and advised the AAGs on policy initiatives, appellate and international matters, and competition advocacy efforts.

Peggy is a co-chair of the 2011 Antitrust and Energy Conference of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law. She previously served in several other leadership positions within the ABA, including vice chair of the Section's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. In that role she was responsible for coordinating the drafting and submission of any merger law-related comments to be submitted on behalf of the Section to the U.S. and foreign governments. She also has been a senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, chair's assistant, and vice chair of the section's Fuel and Energy and Membership and Equal Opportunity Committees.