PatriciaOchman

Associate

Cleveland + 1.216.586.7145

Patricia Ochman practices antitrust and competition law and focuses on antitrust litigation, government investigations, and merger reviews. She has represented clients in various industries, including defense, health care, and consumer products. She represents corporate clients in federal and state courts and has experience in many aspects of party and non-party discovery and pretrial litigation, as well as transactional matters and conduct investigations brought by federal antitrust enforcers. With respect to merger work, she has counseled clients through Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and Second Request responses, including investigational hearing preparation and agency advocacy.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Patricia practiced law in Montreal, Canada, where she concentrated on litigation, indigenous law, constitutional law, and natural resource law. She has published peer-reviewed articles and has presented at conferences, seminars, and other events in Canada and in Northern Europe. She was a researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM/Arctic Centre) in Rovaniemi, Finland and a member of the Fiji Draft Mineral Act review team of the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center. She has served internships at the Prosecutor's Office of Summit County, Ohio and at the U.N. Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, as part of the Working Group on Art. 8(j).

Patricia is a member of the CMBA Ethics and Professionalism Committee. She previously served on the board of directors of the Horses and Humans Research Foundation. Patricia is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law.

Experience

  • TopBuild attempts to acquire Specialty Products & InsulationJones Day advised TopBuild Corp. (NSYE: BLD) in its attempted acquisition of Specialty Products & Insulation from private equity firm Incline Equity Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at $960 million.
  • Cardinal Health wins Seventh Circuit affirmance of dismissal of antitrust conspiracy claimsIn an antitrust conspiracy case, the Seventh Circuit affirmed across-the-board the dismissal with prejudice of a second amended complaint (“SAC”) filed against Jones Day client Cardinal Health, Inc. (“Cardinal”).
  • Yazaki successfully resolves automaker lawsuit alleging price-fixing and bid riggingJones Day represented Yazaki Corporation and Yazaki North America, Inc. in successfully resolving a civil antitrust lawsuit brought by an automaker following Jones Day's filing of motions for summary judgment and to exclude the plaintiff's sole expert witness.
  • NVIDIA acquires Mellanox Technologies for approximately $7 billionJones Day advised NVIDIA Corporation in its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., an Israel-based leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage.