The Federal Ad Tech Case Against Google: From Ruling to Remedies

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• Judge Brinkema’s opinion through the lens of Section 2 enforcement and Google’s litigation history.
• How to think about damages in the unique framework of monopolization of the Ad Tech stack.
• The new remedy proposals, as well as their economic and practical considerations.

Cristian Santesteban Bio

Cristian founded RedPeak in 2010 after working at Compass Lexecon (and its predecessors) for almost a decade. In his career, Cristian has worked on some of the most important mergers and antitrust cases of the last two decades, involving firms such as AT&T, Intel, and Comcast. His experience in litigation consulting spans both defense and plaintiff cases and a broad range of antitrust issues, including monopolization, class certification, price fixing, mergers, and damages. He has particular industry expertise in digital platforms, financial markets, semiconductors, media, telecom, biomedical products, food products, commodities, among others.

Eamon Kelly Bio

In 2022, Eamon and his colleagues were recognized with the American Antitrust Institute Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement Award for their work against Apple representing a class of app developers. Eamon was also appointed as co-lead counsel for a class of developer plaintiffs, favorably settling their antitrust claims against Google.

Eamon is a first-chair trial lawyer. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in commercial matters ranging from patent and trade secret disputes to investor, partner, and customer-contract disputes, and insurance coverage and recovery cases. He excels in framing and resolving cases, charting a path from the complaint to resolution, whether through negotiated settlement or at trial.

Josh Gray Bio

Joshua Gray is an antitrust litigator with experience balanced between government service and private practice. His insight into antitrust law and federal agency policy stems from two stints at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and two decades in private practice handling government investigations and antitrust litigation.

Following a federal clerkship, Josh started his antitrust career during the Clinton administration as an attorney-advisor to progressive FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky. During a second time at FTC under the Obama administration, he worked extensively on dominant firms in the Digital Economy.

As a staff attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition’s Anticompetitive Practices Division, he investigated and litigated antitrust conduct cases, deposed senior executives, and managed expert witnesses through discovery and trial.