Aimee DeFilippo has more than 15 years of experience practicing antitrust law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, counseling, compliance, and nonmerger investigations. She has represented clients before the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general and has experience across numerous industries including health care, pharmaceuticals, power, consumer products, agriculture, airlines, communications, and more. Aimee has worked to secure clearances in numerous complex transactions and has steered clients through high-profile government investigations. She also regularly advises clients on antitrust issues involving competitor collaborations, distribution and pricing arrangements, and information sharing. Representative clients include General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Eastman Chemical, Cleveland Clinic, and Yale New Haven Health System.
In addition, Aimee gained substantial experience practicing as an in-house lawyer while on a yearlong secondment with the competition law group of General Electric, where she worked on a wide variety of transactional, counseling, and compliance matters across the globe. She also worked in the legal department of a major U.S. corporation throughout her time in law school.
Aimee recently served a two-year term as chair of the Antitrust Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, and she is also a member of the ABA's Section of Antitrust Law. She has written extensively for both organizations and has published articles in CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Bloomberg BNA, The Antitrust Source, The Threshold, and others. Aimee is also a frequent speaker on antitrust issues, having appeared as a panelist in numerous ABA and AHLA webinars and in-person programs. She also serves on the Bloomberg Law Health Care Practice Innovation Board.
Experiencia
Publicaciones adicionales
- December 2019
Contributing Author, ABA The Antitrust Compliance Handbook: A Practitioner's Guide - September 2018
Health Care Networks and Managed Care: Antitrust Aspects of Integration and Exclusion, Bloomberg Law / BNA Health Law & Business Series Portfolio - June 9, 2016
FTC Provides Updated Health Care Enforcement and Policy Resources, Bloomberg BNA Health Law Reporter - July 11, 2013
Timely Use of Antitrust Counsel in Hospital Merger Cases, Bloomberg BNA Health Law Reporter - April 2013
Getting The Tough Deal Done: The Roles of The General Counsel and Outside Antitrust Counsel, CPI Antitrust Chronicle - August 2010
Evaluating Federal and State Antitrust Reviews of Health Insurance Mergers, coeditor, American Health Lawyers Association - April 2010
Contributor, Federal Antitrust Guidelines for Licensing of Intellectual Property (ABA 3rd ed.) - February 2010
Contributor, Antitrust Health Care Handbook (ABA 4th ed.) - 2007- present
Draft numerous Antitrust Alerts for American Health Lawyers Association - December 2009
Authorized Generics: FTC Releases Interim Report, American Health Lawyers Ass'n Life Sciences newsletter, Vol. 3, Issue 3 - Fall 2007
Summary of ABA Brown Bag Program on Implications for Merger Analysis from the Evanston Decision, The Threshold, Vol. III, No. 1 - September 2007
New Life for Hospital Merger Cases: FTC Ruling Against Evanston Northwestern's Merger with Highland Park, American Health Lawyers Association
- November 7, 2024
ABA Antitrust Section Corporate Counseling Committee Monthly Update - June 5, 2024
Trends in Hospital Merger Enforcement, moderator, ABA Antitrust in Healthcare Conference - September 7, 2023
Hot off the Press: New Merger Guidelines Proposed, American Health Law Association - March 29, 2023
Cultivating an Ethical Mindset, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting - September 27, 2022
Merger Investigations: Practical Advice in Times of Change, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Teleconference - June 28-29, 2022
Antitrust and Competition Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry, American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting - November 29, 2021
ABA Antitrust Section Corporate Counseling Committee Monthly Update - May 19, 2021
Health Care Antitrust: Meeting the Challenge, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association - November 19, 2020
Recent Developments in Health Care and Pharmaceutical Antitrust, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Teleconference - May 1, 2019
Antitrust Considerations in Negotiating and Preparing for a Merger or Joint Venture, American Health Lawyers Association Health Care Transactions Conference - April 2019
The Capitol Forum Thought Leaders Series - December 10, 2018
Effective Strategies for Dealing with the Antitrust Enforcement Agencies, ABA Health Law Summit - June 25, 2018
Exclusionary Practices in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting - May 10-11, 2018
No More Flying Under the Radar: Antitrust Scrutiny of Physician Practice Acquisitions, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association Health Care Transactions Conference - May 1, 2018
Jones Day's Media Labor & Employment Law Roundtable - May 1, 2018
Developing L&E Topics: Joint/Single Employer, No-Hire/No-Poaching Agreements, and Other Topics, Jones Day Media Labor & Employment Roundtable - October 10, 2017
Development of a Voluntary Standard, panelist, ASTM ICPHSO Voluntary Standards Workshop - May 25, 2017
Health Care Antitrust Developments, Louisiana State Bar Association Healthcare Law 2017 seminar - June 14, 2016
State Action and Other Immunities and Exemptions, moderator, American Health Lawyers Association - May 16, 2016
Building Your Brand: How to Do It and Why It Is Important, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association - February 20, 2014
The ABC's of Antitrust in Health Care Webinar Series, Part V: Monopolization, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association - October 21, 2013
REMS Restrictions and Generic Entry: What Role for Antitrust?, panelist, ABA Section of Antitrust Law program - October 5, 2012
Developing a Healthcare Antitrust Practice, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association - January 12, 2012
Healthcare Antitrust Bootcamp Webinar Series, Part V: Monopolization, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association - September 21, 2010
Healthcare Merger Enforcement Under the Obama Administration’s Revised Merger Guidelines, panelist, American Health Lawyers Association - October 21, 2008
Why Antitrust?, panelist, ABA Section of Antitrust Law program
- George Mason University (J.D. magna cum laude 2006; Associate Editor, George Mason Law Review); Florida Southern College (B.A. in Political Science summa cum laude 1999)
- District of Columbia
- Legislative Correspondent to U.S. Rep. John E. Peterson (2000); Intern, Office of Family Assistance, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (1999)
The Legal 500 United States — recommended for merger control (2018-2024), cartels (2018), and trade secrets (2020) and named a "Next Generation Lawyer" (2019, 2023, 2024)
Who's Who Legal: Competition — Future Leaders (2017, 2019-2023)
Named to the list of "40 in their 40s: Notable Women Competition Professionals in Europe, the Americas, and Africa" (2019)