On April 5, 2022, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Senior Of Counsel Jonathan Jacobson were honored at Global Competition Review’s 12th Annual GCR Awards, which recognized the world’s leading antitrust lawyers, economists, and enforcers, as well as the biggest cases of 2021.
Wilson Sonsini—alongside Freshfields, Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, Ropes & Gray, and Williams & Connolly—won the award for “Behavioural Matter of the Year for the Americas” for its work defending Google against investigations from the Department of Justice and state enforcers. The team representing Google in the matter includes antitrust partners Susan Creighton, Wendy Waszmer, Franklin Rubinstein, Brad Tennis, and Tina Sessions.
In addition, Jonathan was recognized as “Litigator of the Year” for his work on several outstanding matters, including his defense of Google in the Google Digital Advertising antitrust litigation and his successful representation of two Chinese vitamin exporters before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
To determine the winners for each category, Global Competition Review’s readers were invited to vote for the cases, law firms, lawyers, economists, and enforcers they believe excelled in 2021. Only votes from employees of law firms, economic consultancies, government agencies, universities, and competition advocacy organizations were counted.
For more information on this year’s GCR Awards winners, please click here.