Carl W. Schwarz is senior counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. Carl is a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department and the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group. Carl focuses his practice in the litigation of antitrust, international trade and intellectual property matters. His experience includes the defense of numerous bank merger cases prosecuted by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, predatory pricing and conspiracy antitrust proceedings, antidumping proceedings, patent infringement and private antitrust cases.
Carl has represented Japanese defendants in a variety of antidumping, antitrust, patent infringement and other actions arising from allegations of anticompetitive pricing conduct in the semiconductor trade. In addition, Carl represented several of the defendants in Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., et al. v. Zenith Radio Corporation, et al., 475 U.S. 574 (1986). This 17-year alleged predatory pricing and conspiracy antitrust proceeding ended with the defendants obtaining summary judgment in their favor.
Carl was also lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Laker Airways, Ltd. v. Sabena Belgian World Airlines, et al., 731 F.2d 909 (D.C. Cir., 1984), and American Society of Mechanical Engineers v. Hydrolevel, 456 U.S. 566 (1982), two major antitrust cases resolved in favor of the plaintiffs.
Carl received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and his Master of Law degree was focused on international trade and investment law.
Carl is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States, various U.S. district courts and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Court of International Trade. Before entering private practice, Carl was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Foreign Commerce Section, where he supervised several investigations involving international cartel activity.
Education
George Washington University Law School, J.D. (with honors), 1962
George Washington University Law School, LL.M., 1966
Cornell University, B.C.E., 1958 |