CURRICULUM VITAE
Ronald W. Davis
1619
McLendon Ave.,
Atlanta, GA 30307
404 (687-8641)
404 (687-8741) (fax)
rdavis1@earthlink.net
Practice Description
Solo practitioner, advising corporations and law firms on the application of antitrust principles to business issues and consulting on antitrust litigation.
Member of the New York and Georgia bars (admitted 1976 and 1995, respectively).
Legal Experience
White & Case LLP, New York, Associate, 1975-86; Of Counsel, 1986-90; Partner, 1990-95
Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York, Partner, 1995-2000
Solo practice in Atlanta, 2000-present
Lawsuits and other legal matters in which I have been involved, in one way or another, include the following (as well as many non-public investigations or other matters):
FTC v. Food Town (4th
Cir. 1976) (defendant)
FTC v. Lancaster Colony (S.D.N.Y.
1977) (defendant)
Antitrust Division investigation of
the international petroleum industry
Corrugated Container
Antitrust Litigation (S.D. Tex.) (defendant)
Pullman
v. McDermott (7th Cir. 1980) (defendant)
Franklin Container
v. IP, (E.D. Pa. 1983) (defendant)
Daniels v. Amerco (S.D.N.Y.
1983) (plaintiff)
Consolidated Gold Fields v. Minorco (2d
Cir. 1989) (plaintiff)
Sunshine Cellular v. Vanguard Cellular
(S.D.N.Y. 1992) (plaintiff)
Brand Name Prescription Drug
Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill.) (defendant)
Blue Cross v.
Philip Morris (E.D.N.Y., N.D. Ill., C.D. Cal.) (plaintiff)
Geneva Pharmaceuticals
(FTC 2000) (respondent)
Sample v. Monsanto (E.D. Mo. 2003),
Beech-Nut
v. Gerber (9th Cir. 2003)
Antitrust Division investigation
of NY area Mercedes dealers (2003)
Valley Drug v. Geneva
Pharmaceuticals (11th Cir. 2003)
RxUSA Wholesale v. Alcon (E.D.N.Y. 2006) (defendant)
Professional Associations
Member of the American Bar Association, Sections of Litigation and Antitrust, and the State Bar of Georgia
1986-1989 Vice Chair, Clayton Act Committee, ABA Antitrust Section
1989-1992 Editorial Chair, Antitrust Law Journal
1992-1994 Chair, Sherman Act Section 2 Committee, ABA Antitrust Section
1995-2006, Member of the Editorial Board, Antitrust magazine
2003, Task Force member, ABA Antitrust Section Comments on the Proposed Canadian Competition Act Amendments
2004, Task Force member, Joint Comments of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law, Section of Intellectual Property Law and Section of International Law and Practice on the Report of the Study Group on the Antimonopoly Act of Japan
2006, Task Force member, Comments Regarding the [EU] Commission's Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82 to Exclusionary Abuses
Other Biographical Information
Born
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1946
Undergraduate Education
Princeton University, A.B., 1968
Legal Education
Harvard Law School, 1972-73
Columbia Law School, J.D.,
1975
Teaching
Special Professor of Law, Hofstra University Law School, 1999-2000
Publications
Solicitation of Anticompetitive Action from Foreign Governments: Should the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine Apply to Communications with Foreign Sovereigns?, 11 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 395 (1981)
ABA Antitrust Section, Monograph No. 7, Merger Standards under U.S. Antitrust Laws (1981) (member of the Merger Standards Task Force; principal author of section on the economics of conglomerate mergers)
Horizontal Merger Policy: Some Modest Proposals to Ameliorate the Chaos in the Courts, 54 Antitrust L.J. 1261 (1985)
Antitrust, the Trade Deficit, and U.S. International Competitiveness: A Time for Rethinking, 18 N.Y.U.J. Int'l L. & Pol. 1235 (1986)
Antitrust Analysis of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures in the 1980s: A Pragmatic Guide to Evaluation of Legal Risks, 11 Del. J. Corp. L. 25 (1986)
Gray Market Goods and
the Antitrust Laws, Legal Notes and Viewpoints Q. (Aug. 1986) (with
David Bender)
ABA Antitrust Section, Monograph No. 16, Private Litigation Under
Section 7 of the Clayton Act: Law and Policy (1989) (Chair of the
Private Merger Litigation Task Force)
Book Review, Kwoka, The Antitrust Revolution, Antitrust (Summer 1990)
Corporate M&A Strategy and the New EEC Merger Control Program, Antitrust
(Fall/Winter 1990)
ABA Antitrust Section, State Antitrust Practice and Statutes (1990)
(principal author of chapter on Connecticut law)
Book Review, Jorde & Teece, Antitrust, Innovation, and Competitivenes,
Antitrust (1993)
Avoiding the Pitfalls of EC Distribution Law, Antitrust (Summer 1993)
(with Eric Gastinel)
Contrast or Convergence? The IP Guidelines and the New EU Technology
Transfer Block Exemption, Antitrust (Spring 1995)(with M. Elaine
Johnston)
Pondering Robinson-Patman: The Art of Counseling, Commentary, Antitrust
(Summer 1996)
Amchem
and Antitrust: Have the Ground Rules for Antitrust Class Actions
Changed?, Antitrust (Fall 1997)
Indirect Purchaser Litigation:
ARC America's
Chickens Come Home to Roost on the
Illinois Brick
Wall, 65 Antitrust L.J. 375 (1997)
Capping the Resale Price: What Can We Do with
Khan?,
Antitrust (Spring 1998)
Supreme Court Preview: Discon v. Nynex, Antitrust (Summer 1998)
The FTC's
Intel
Case: What are the Limitations on "Throwing Your Weignt Around" Using
Intellectual Property Rights?, Antitrust (Summer 1999)
Editorial Introduction: California Dental Association and the
Rational Rule of Reason, Antitrust (Fall 1999)
Pricing with Strings Attached: At Sea in
Concord Boat
and
LePage's,
Antitrust (Summer 2000)
A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma: Slotting Allowances and Antitrust,
Antitrust (Spring 2001)
Editorial Introduction: Indirect Purchaser Pot Keeps Boiling, Antitrust
(Summer 2001)
International Cartel and Monopolization Cases Expose a Gap in Foreign
Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, Antitrust (Summer 2001)
Editorial Introduction: FTC v. Heinz: Two Views on the Role of
Efficiencies in Merger Analysis, Antitrust (Fall 2001)
International Cartels: Who's Liable? Who's Not? Tracking a Moving
Target, Antitrust Source (May 2002)
LePage's v. 3M: What Will Stick from the Tape Case?, Discussion Paper Prepared for ABA Antitrust Section Teleseminar on "Buying Loyalty" (June 10, 2003)
The Mystery Deepens: U.S. Antitrust Treatment of International Cartels, Antitrust (Summer 2003)
Empagran and International Cartels - A Comity of Errors, Antitrust (Fall 2004)
LePage's v. 3M: Five Ingredients in Search of a Monopoly Broth, Antitrust Source (Nov. 2004)
Dentsply - Monopolization Enforcement with Teeth, Antitrust (Summer 2005) (with Richard Wolfram)