Sennett, Michael

Mike Sennett represents clients on the antitrust aspects of mergers and joint ventures, in antitrust litigation, civil investigations before the United States Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, and in criminal antitrust and grand jury proceedings. Mike has handled a broad range of complex antitrust cases in courts throughout the United States, including the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, and before antitrust enforcement agencies. He also counsels clients on the antitrust aspects of intellectual property and related patent matters, strategic alliances and collaborations, pricing and price discrimination, distribution issues, advertising and marketing practices, and Hatch-Waxman Act strategies.

Mike serves as antitrust counsel to a number of multinational businesses, consortia, investment firms, and trade associations operating domestically and globally. Industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, medical devices, pharmaceutical benefit services, steel, automotive, building products, farm equipment, consumer products, mining, water and wastewater technologies, health care services, transportation, financial services, and communications. Representative corporate clients include Alberto-Culver, Astellas Pharma, Baxter International, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cardinal Health, CVS Caremark, Edwards Lifesciences, and Fortune Brands.

Mike is on the adjunct law faculty at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches antitrust law courses. He is a member of the board of advisors of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Law Studies and the Midwest Antitrust Colloquium. He has written extensively on antitrust and international competition law matters for academic and trade journals and delivered addresses on antitrust law matters for conferences in the U.S. and abroad.