McWane, Inc. v. FTC. Chris's first major case was as a young staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission. Handed a complaint by a new entrant into the pipe fittings market and a still-emerging body of law involving exclusive dealing, Chris developed and led a case that culminated in the Eleventh Circuit's affirmance of the FTC's liability order. McWane is today widely cited as one of the leading precedents in this area of law.

SourceOne Dental, Inc. v. Patterson Cos., Inc. Chris led a trial team representing a new entrant into the dental supplies market boycotted by incumbent distributors. This case illustrates Chris's skill in proving substantial damages for a startup company irreparably injured by anticompetitive conduct, one of the most challenging tasks in commercial litigation. Chris used the defendants' own documents and testimony to collect damages for his client 400 times larger than the client's actual revenues through the time of trial. The case also involved the first claim of anticompetitive information exchange involving non-price information to survive summary judgment in modern antitrust litigation.

International Construction Products v. Caterpillar. Chris was handed the task of resurrecting the group boycott claims of a new entrant dismissed by a highly skeptical judge after hearing oral argument offered by one of America's most famous lawyers. Chris changed two sentences in the complaint, handled the second oral argument himself, and won; an illustration of the credibility and clarity Chris brings to oral argument on Sherman Act issues.

Sentry Data Systems, Inc. v. CVS Health. This case involved exclusionary tying in the unusual 340B contract pharmacy market. The central issue in this case was proving market power in a market where the defendant's market share was below the thresholds commonly used in antitrust cases. Chris used his knowledge of antitrust economics and his tactical litigation skills to develop compelling evidence of market power leveraging the little-used Lerner Index measure of power and the dependence of indigent patients on access to pharmacy services in highly local markets. The case settled with a business deal that preserved the value of the client's business in advance of a later sale.

The PLS.com, LLC v. National Association of Realtors. Chris leads our firm's representation of PLS, an excluded rival in the market for residential real estate listing services challenging the decades' long dominance of the multiple listing services administered by the National Association of Realtors. The Ninth Circuit opinion reinstating PLS's claims is one of the most influential and widely cited cases in contemporary antitrust litigation.