Faculty Profile: Jeffrey Spigel

Jeff Spigel is a partner in King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office where he is head of the Antitrust Practice Group. Mr. Spigel’s practice focuses on advising clients with responding to civil and criminal antitrust investigations in the United States and abroad, obtaining Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance and coordinating approvals in foreign jurisdictions of proposed transactions, pursuing or defending against antitrust claims, and counseling on strategic antitrust issues such as those arising from benchmarking, competitor collaborations, distribution, licensing, marketing, pricing, and trade association participation. Mr. Spigel also has significant antitrust experience in various segments of the healthcare industry. He frequently advises healthcare clients on strategic transactions, messenger model networks, financially and/or clinically integrated networks, Group Purchasing Organizations and claims by commercial payors, competitors, or the government. Mr. Spigel’s antitrust experience also includes advising clients in a broad range of industries, including building materials, chemicals, energy, financial, metals, paper, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications, and the Internet. Mr. Spigel appears regularly before the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and he coordinates with foreign counsel in dealing with competition authorities in jurisdictions around the globe. In addition, Mr. Spigel represent clients on unfair and deceptive trade practice matters before the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and State Attorneys General. Legal 500 and Super Lawyers have identified him as a leading antitrust lawyer. In addition, Nightingale Healthcare News has named him one of the “Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyers” in the United States. A graduate of Emory University, Mr. Spigel received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law and an L.L.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and State Bar of Tennessee. Mr. Spigel is also a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, t and the International Bar Association.