Juan A. Arteaga is a Chambers-ranked antitrust partner who serves as co-chair of the firm’s New York Antitrust Practice. He is a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, where he led and oversaw various high-profile civil and criminal investigations and litigation. Juan represents companies across various industries in merger matters and civil conduct investigations before the DOJ, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general. He also represents companies and individuals in criminal antitrust investigations before the DOJ and state attorneys general.
In addition to having extensive experience representing clients before antitrust enforcers, Juan is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer who regularly represents clients in government antitrust enforcement actions and private antitrust litigation, including class actions and multidistrict litigation. He also represents clients in a wide range of commercial litigation, including securities litigation, shareholder derivative actions, and international arbitrations.
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business praised Juan for “his work across both civil and criminal antitrust agency investigations” and described him as “both smart and practical when balancing business requirements with risk” and “very focused on understanding how the narrative of a case plays into its persuasive power with either a judge or regulator.” Juan has also been recognized as a leading antitrust practitioner by various other professional publications and associations. He has been named an “Antitrust Rising Star” by Law360, a “Distinguished Leader” and “Rising Star” by the New York Law Journal, a “Rising Star” by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, an “Attorney Who Matters” by the Ethisphere Institute, and a “Top Lawyer Under 40” by the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Juan is the co-chair of the firm’s Diversity Council and has been widely recognized as a leader in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within the legal profession. He was named a “Diversity and Inclusion Champion” by the New York City Bar Association, a member of the 2020 “Responsible 100” list by City & State New York, and a “CUP Catalyst” by the Council of Urban Professionals. He has also received numerous awards for his pro bono work and civic involvement from organizations such as the New York Legal Aid Society, Legal Outreach, Her Justice, Puerto Rican Bar Association, and LatinoJustice.
Between 2013 and 2017, Juan was a senior official in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. During this period, Juan served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement, where he led and oversaw numerous high-profile and complex investigations and litigation related to various industries, including financial services, aviation, food and beverage, health care, technology, cable, manufactured products, transportation, and telecommunications. Juan also served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. In this role, Juan helped oversee all aspects of the Antitrust Division’s operations and enforcement programs, including merger reviews and enforcement actions, non-merger civil investigations and litigation, and criminal cartel investigations and prosecutions. He also helped advise White House officials on competition policy issues and oversee the Antitrust Division’s coordination with various federal regulatory agencies, state attorneys General, and foreign competition enforcement agencies.
While at the Antitrust Division, Juan worked on numerous merger and non-merger litigations, including:
- U.S. v. Aetna and Humana (successful challenge, after three week trial, to Aetna’s proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana)
- U.S. v. Halliburton and Baker Hughes (Halliburton abandoned proposed $34 billion acquisition of Baker Hughes after one month of litigation)
- U.S. v. Electrolux and General Electric (Electrolux abandoned proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of General Electric’s cooking appliances business after four weeks of trial)
- U.S. v. Energy Solutions and Waste Control Specialists (successful challenge, after three week trial, to Energy Solutions’ proposed $367 million acquisition of Waste Control Specialists)
- U.S. v. National CineMedia and Screenvision (NCM abandoned proposed $375 million acquisition of Screenvision on the eve of trial)
- U.S. v. United Airlines and Delta Airlines (United abandoned proposed acquisition of additional take-off/landing slots from Delta at Newark Liberty Airport after several months of litigation)
- U.S. v. US Airways and American Airlines (US Airways agreed to divest 138 landing slots and 10 gates at key U.S. airports to settle challenge to $11 billion acquisition of American Airlines)
- U.S. v. ValueAct (activist investment manager agreed to pay record $11 million fine and refrain from certain conduct for failing to comply with premerger notification requirements)
- U.S. v. Anheuser-Busch Inbev/SABMiller (ABI agreed to divest MillerCoors and refrain from certain beer distribution practices in order to proceed with $107 billion acquisition of SABMiller)
- U.S. v. Alaska Airlines/Virgin America (Alaska agreed to scale back codeshare agreement with American Airlines in order to proceed with $4 billion acquisition of Virgin)
- U.S. v. Carolinas HealthCare System (successful challenge to CHS’ anti-steering contractual provisions)
Juan devotes significant time to pro bono and community work. He has represented immigrants in deportation proceedings, battered women and their children in family court and immigration proceedings, and indigent criminal defendants in post-conviction habeas proceedings and appeals. Juan serves on the boards of various non-profit organizations, including Legal Outreach, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp., and Free the Slaves. He also serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Judiciary Committee and the Fourth Circuit’s Criminal Justice Act Panel. He has previously served as a fellow in the White House Presidential Leadership Program, the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section Leadership Program, and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.
Juan received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served as a managing editor of the Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Archbishop Oscar Romero Scholarship. After law school, Juan served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Roger L. Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Education
- Boston College, B.A. (1999) magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa
- Columbia Law School, J.D. (2002) Managing Editor, Columbia Law Review and Harlan Stone Fiske Scholar
Affiliations
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Member, Executive Committee, New York State Bar Association, Antitrust Section
- Member, New York City Bar Association, Judiciary Committee
- Member, American Bar Association, Antitrust Section
- Member, Hispanic National Bar Association
- Member, Puerto Rican Bar Association
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