David Garcia is a partner in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Century City office, where he is also the Office Managing Partner. He is a litigator with a broad background in complex civil litigation for major U.S. companies, including extensive class action and multidistrict litigation experience. His practice focuses principally on antitrust litigation and counseling with particular emphasis on the entertainment industry, provider side healthcare mergers and the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property in litigation and joint ventures.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Garcia's antitrust litigation experience includes price fixing cartel defense, patent related monopolization claims and representation of clients in connection with civil and criminal investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He counsels extensively on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and competitor collaborations in healthcare, for a broad range of hospitals and doctor groups throughout the U.S. including second requests and divestiture negotiations with both the FTC and DoJ. His broad ranging antitrust litigation background also includes major matters involving standard setting, state action immunity, and contested mergers. He also counsels and litigates in a variety of vertical distribution situations, including dealer termination, vertical pricing restrictions, franchise termination disputes and counseling and litigation involving multilevel marketing organizations. Finally he counsels joint ventures in the formation stage and through ongoing antitrust monitoring.
More Legal and Business Bylines From David R. Garcia
- Department of Justice Withdraws Key Healthcare Antitrust Policy Statements - (Posted On Monday, February 06, 2023)
- Sixth Circuit Questions Efficacy of State “Certificate of Need” Laws, Question Whether Reduces Competition - (Posted On Monday, March 07, 2022)
- Nota Bene Podcast Episode 151: Benchmarking the Past Three Years of American Healthcare Consolidation with David Garcia [PODCAST] - (Posted On Tuesday, November 09, 2021)
- Healthcare Antitrust Update: Key Antitrust Takeaways for Physician Groups - (Posted On Monday, June 14, 2021)
- Vertical Deals in Healthcare: Key Antitrust Takeaways for Private Equity Firms - (Posted On Thursday, February 25, 2021)
- Nota Bene Episode 86: Post-Pandemic International Competition Regulations that are Suddenly In Play with Leo Caseria, Jacques Derenne, David Garcia, and Bevin Newman [PODCAST] - (Posted On Friday, June 19, 2020)
- DOJ Issues First Business Review Letter Approving Competitor Collaboration In Response To COVID-19 - (Posted On Friday, April 17, 2020)
- Third Circuit Rejects State’s Bid for Attorney’s Fees in Hospital Merger Dispute - (Posted On Friday, February 01, 2019)
- Eleventh Circuit Denies Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Interlocutory Appeal Challenging Application of Per Se Rule In Multidistrict Litigation In Alabama - (Posted On Monday, December 17, 2018)
- U.S. Department of Justice Settles Anti-Steering Suit Against Hospital System; First Such Settlement After Amex SCOTUS Decision - (Posted On Monday, November 26, 2018)