Lisl Dunlop has over 30 years of experience providing antitrust support for her clients’ key strategic initiatives, including major transactions and agency investigations. Lisl guides clients through the antitrust-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other combinations, and agency investigations.

Lauded as a leading antitrust practitioner by international legal rankings, such as Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States, and Crain’s New York Business, Lisl provides a global perspective to approaching antitrust aspects of transactions, litigation strategy, and government investigations. Having practiced in Australia, the UK, and the United States, she is adept at representing clients before the U.S. federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies, as well as international authorities.

Lisl represents clients in a broad range of industries – including the technology, media, and cannabis sectors – and has mounted a significant healthcare practice. She guides healthcare companies in addressing antitrust risk in transactions as well as a variety of other initiatives, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), independent physician networks, and financial and clinical integration issues.

Lisl is a sought-after author and speaker on antitrust and competition law. Her many leadership roles include serving in the leadership of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, American Health Lawyers Association’s Antitrust Practice Group, and the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section. She dedicates her pro bono practice to assisting members of the LGBTQ+ community and indigent clients in immigration and asylum matters.

Craig Minerva, a former lead attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), counsels clients on all aspects of civil antitrust matters with a focus on leading high-stakes, multinational transaction reviews.

Craig advises clients across a range of industries, including technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, media, entertainment, transportation, and consumer products. He has deep experience in leading complex antitrust matters relating to litigation, investigations, and multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions. Craig leverages his background in economics and his enforcement experience to anticipate potential business challenges and devises creative legal solutions to achieve clients’ goals.

Prior to joining Axinn, Craig led teams at DOJ to investigate high-profile transactions and prevent anticompetitive outcomes, including the Disney/Fox, Visa/Plaid, Quad Graphics/LSC Communications, and Chicago Tribune/Chicago Sun-Times mergers. He received both the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the Assistant Attorney General Award for his achievements in these areas. Prior to his government service, he worked at a global law firm, which included a detail in London, where he advised on European and UK competition law matters and represented clients before the European Commission.

Sam Sherman is an associate in the antitrust group in Axinn’s Washington, DC office. His practice focuses on antitrust transactions, litigation, and government investigations. He has represented both U.S. and multinational clients across a variety of sectors, including life sciences, technology, and cannabis.

Sam earned his JD at Stanford Law School. While at Stanford Law School, he was awarded the John Hart Ely Prize for Outstanding Performance in Lawyering for Innovation in Artificial Intelligence, and he also earned two Gerald Gunther Prizes for Outstanding Performance in Communications Law. Sam was a summer associate with Axinn in 2019.

Prior to law school, he was a Research Fellow at Stanford University, where he used cutting-edge social scientific methods to study difficult questions of law and public policy and co-authored two articles about improving government service delivery based on empirical evidence. Sam holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Wake Forest University, where he was a Nancy Susan Reynolds Scholar and recipient of the David and Lelia Farr Prize for Excellence in Economics (awarded to one graduating economics major for outstanding achievement).

*Not yet admitted to the Washington, DC Bar.

Patrick B. Klein is an Associate Attorney at the New York Office of Neville Peterson LLP. His practice focuses on assisting clients with Customs issues throughout the United States, international trade regulation issues and any related administrative legal issues.  Pat’s Customs experiences include assisting clients administratively and in litigation with tariff classification, appraisement and valuation issues, counterfeit or confusingly similar goods seizures, and drawback claims. Pat has assisted clients before the International Trade Commission and Commerce Department in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, and related litigation. Pat has also assisted clients with Customs and trade issues with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and Canadian Border Services Agency.

Pat earned his B.S in Business Economics from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2015, and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School with a certificate in International Law in 2018. He is admitted to practice in New York State, and before the U.S. Court of International Trade, and his application is pending before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

John Peterson has practiced international trade and Customs law since 1977, and has enjoyed every minute of it. His practice embraces all phases of trade law, from counseling and import planning, to representation of clients before government agencies, and litigation in United States and foreign courts. Each new engagement allows him to learn about different industries, products, technologies and people. Whether the practice of law takes him to a high rise office tower in Asia, a factory on a Caribbean Island, or the control room of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, he relishes the opportunity to help clients solve problems and improve their operation.

John regularly represents foreign and domestic clients before United States Customs and Border Protection, the United States International Trade Commission, the United States Department of Commerce, the Foreign Trade Zones Board, the Office of United States Trade Representative, the Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Departments of State and Treasury. He also assists clients with issues arising before foreign Customs authorities and international organizations, including the World Trade Organization and the World Customs Organization.

He has litigated hundreds of cases before United States courts, especially the United States Court of International Trade and United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has also argued cases in the courts of several foreign countries.

John has extensive experience in antidumping and countervailing duty matters, export controls and protection of intellectual property rights in international trade. He has served as a United States Panelist under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, has written scholarly articles published in the United States and abroad, and is a frequent speaker on customs and trade topics.

He is married and has a son.

Proving that his enthusiasm for difficult but heroic causes is not limited to the courtroom, John can often be found rooting enthusiastically for the New York Mets, Fordham University basketball and Arsenal Football Club.