AAI International Advisor for Mexico .Eduardo Pérez Motta was president of the Federal Competition Commission from 2004 to 2013. In 2012, he was elected president of the International Competition Network that groups together over 130 competition agencies worldwide. Between 2001 and 2004, he was Mexico’s Ambassador to the WTO, and previously he was head of the negotiation of the free trade agreement between Mexico and the European Union. He has also been chief of staff to the Minister of Trade and Industry, Director General of Industrial Policy and chief of staff of the Vice Minister for Revenue at the Finance Ministry. He holds a BS in economics from the Insituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and has undertaken doctoral studies at UCLA. He is also a member of the editorial board of Competition Policy International.
Douglas E. Rosenthal
Douglas E. Rosenthal is Senior Counsel in the law firm of Constantine Cannon LLP internationally recognized for focusing on antitrust litigation and counseling and complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Mr. Rosenthal has 46 years of antitrust and international litigation experience, and in recent years has been increasingly involved in advising clients on the impact on their businesses of domestic and global competition laws and policy considerations.
Don Resnikoff
The Law Offices of Don Resnikoff provide counsel on antitrust and consumer issues based on decades of antitrust practice, and a long history of public service. Don Allen Resnikoff’s public service has included work as Special Assistant Attorney General with the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General. He previously was Senior Assistant Attorney General with that office, where he specialized in affirmative antitrust litigation. Previously he served for more than twenty years as an antitrust litigator with the Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, where he prosecuted cases involving financial institutions, computers, biotechnology products, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, and other topics. His experience also includes private practice corporate litigation as a partner with a New York City firm, recent Of Counsel experience with FinkelsteinThompson LLP, and service as an Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey.
Dianne M. Nast
Dianne M. Nast enjoys a national complex litigation practice in antitrust, product liability, personal injury and other complex civil litigation. By way of example, she was sole Lead Counsel for the direct purchaser class in Wellbutrin SR Antitrust Litigation, Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Augmentin Antitrust Litigation, Eastern District of Virginia. She was Co-Lead Counsel in Paxil Class Antitrust Litigation, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the HIV Class Litigation, MDL No. 986, Northern District of Illinois and a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (“PSC”) and subclass counsel in Diet Drugs, MDL No. 1203, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Nast serves in leadership roles in multiple other complex class action cases such as on the PSCs in both Effexor Antitrust Litigation, District of New Jersey and NFL Injury Litigation, MDL No. 2323, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and on the PSC and as Mediation Counsel in Skelaxin Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2343, Eastern District of Tennessee.
In the non-class, aggregate litigation context, again by way of example, Nast is Lead Counsel in Zoloft Litigation, MDL No. 2343, Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Co-Lead Counsel in the Darvocet Litigation, MDL No. 2226, Eastern District of Kentucky. She is on the PSC and chairs the Fee Committee in the Avandia Litigation, MDL No. 1871, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and is Federal-State Liaison and a member of the Policy Committee. Nast is Federal-State Liaison Counsel in the Yaz Litigation, MDL No. 2100, Southern District of Illinois. She is a Co-Lead in the state court Yaz cases in Pennsylvania. She currently serves on the PSC in Actos Litigation, MDL No. 2299, Western District of Louisiana, in Pelvic Repair Systems Litigations, MDL Nos. 2187, 2325, 2326, 2327 and 2387, Southern District of West Virginia, and in the Mirena IUD Litigation, MDL No. 2434, Southern District of New York.
Delia Patterson
Delia Patterson is Senior Director, Regulatory Policy and Compliance, Salt River Project (SRP). Ms. Patterson oversees SRP’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and Environmental, Safety and Health compliance; Arizona Corporation Commission regulatory efforts; and SRP’s corporate political action committee known as PIC (Political Involvement Committee).
Prior to her work at SRP, Ms. Patterson was SVP, Advocacy & Communications and General Counsel, American Public Power Association (APPA). At APPA, Ms. Patterson oversaw the regulatory, government relations, and communications teams. She led energy policy formulation and advocated before the FERC, federal courts, and other energy policy forums. She also served as the organization’s chief legal officer. Prior to her work at APPA, Ms. Patterson was an Associate and Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.
Ms. Patterson held the rank of Lieutenant in the United States Navy, serving six years within the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program before being honorably discharged. She is a member of the U.S. DOE Electricity Advisory Committee; on the Advisory Board of E Source; Board President (2022-2023) of the Energy Bar Association; Board Member, Women’s Energy Resource Council; Member of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Future Electric Utility Regulation Advisory Group; and Member of The Electricity Journal Advisory Board, among others.
Ms. Patterson has a J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, a M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy.
David Lewis
AAI International Advisor for South Africa. David Lewis is the Executive Director at CorruptionWatch. He received his training in economics from the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town. Between 1975 and 1990 he worked in the trade union movement, serving as General Secretary of the General Workers Union and national organizer of the Transport and General Workers Union. From 1990 Lewis directed the Development Policy Research Unit, a UCT based research group specializing in trade and industrial policy. Between 1994 and 1996 he served as Special Advisor to the Minister of Labour and co-chaired the Presidential Commission on Labour Market Policy.
Lewis served on the Task Team advising the Minister of Trade and Industry on the development of competition policy and participated in the drafting of the Competition Act. In September 1999 he was appointed Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal. He was a member of Steering Group of the International Competition Network from its inception in 2001 and served as a vice-chairman of the Steering Group between 2004 and 2008. In January 2009 he was elected Chairman of the Steering Group of the ICN in which position he remained until his second and final term of office as Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal ended in July 2009. Lewis has served on the boards of the National Research Foundation, the Industrial Development Corporation (of which he was deputy Chair) and the International Marketing Council of South Africa. He currently serves on the boards of the Johannesburg Development Agency and South African Airways. He chairs the Debt Review Advisory Committee, a committee of the National Credit Regulator responsible for developing and monitoring the framework of rules governing consumer debt counseling.
In October 2009 David he was appointed an Extraordinary Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science of the University of Pretoria. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in economic sciences by the University of Cape Town. His research and teaching interests span competition policy, industrial policy and political economy.
David Lawsky
David Lawsky joined FIPRA at the beginning of 2010. Between 2001 and 2008 he was the lead Reuters correspondent in Brussels covering competition and regulatory issues. Lawsky also worked in San Francisco and Washington DC and was the only reporter who reported on the Microsoft case both in Brussels and in Washington. During his time in Washington, David covered Capitol Hill, the Justice Department and presidential campaigns. Lawsky was previously press secretary to Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Washington editor at National Public Radio, taught journalism part-time at the University of Maryland and was on the Board of Governors of the National Press Club. Lawsky has a Master’s in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s in English from San Francisco State College. He holds both US and Belgian citizenship.
David Balto
David Balto has over 15 years of government antitrust experience as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and in several senior level positions at the Federal Trade Commission. David Balto was the Policy Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (1998-2001) and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky (1995-1997). In these positions, he was a senior advisor in all aspects of the FTC’s merger and non- merger enforcement program. He helped litigate the challenges to the Staples/Office Depot, Drug Wholesalers, and Heinz/Beechnut mergers, the Intel monopolization case, and the challenges to anticompetitive conduct by several pharmaceutical companies.
David Balto is nationally known for his expertise in competition policy and is a prolific author on antitrust, consumer protection, financial services, intellectual property, and health care competition.
Daryl Lim
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. He also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and founding director of the Intellectual Property (IP) and Innovative Initiative.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator of national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policy makers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public make sense of the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues.
His publications feature in leading flagship and specialty law reviews. He serves as peer reviewer for the Yale Law Journal, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), the National Academy of Inventors, Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Soon, Carolina Academic Press, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.
Darren Bush
Darren Bush writes and lectures on antitrust law & economics with particular focus on regulated and deregulating industries. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where he received a Teaching Fellowship, the Graduate Research Fellowship, and an award for outstanding teaching. While completing his J.D. at Utah, he consulted on issues regarding state deregulation of electric utilities, interned at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, taught various economics courses, and received a Marriner S. Eccles Fellowship in Political Economy.
After receiving his J.D., Professor Bush served as an Attorney General’s Honor Program Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy, & Agriculture Section. In 2001 Professor Bush returned to Utah as a Visiting Associate Professor, where he taught antitrust, law & economics, business organizations, and professional responsibility and consulted on numerous antitrust matters.
He also recently received his black belt in Northern Shaolin/Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
