Eva Cole

Practice Areas

Eva Cole helps clients navigate the complex area of antitrust law, identifying and mitigating risks before they turn into problems and effectively managing and resolving problems that have unavoidably turned into disputes. As co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust/Competition Practice Group, she focuses her practice on civil antitrust litigation, class actions, and international cartel investigations led by enforcement agencies around the world. She has particularly distinguished experience representing clients in the electronics, financial, and sports industries.

Eva regularly represents clients in complex commercial class action and litigation, and in connection with a wide array of federal and state antitrust issues, including monopolization, price-fixing, wage-fixing, no-poach agreements, group boycotts, exclusive dealing, tying, price discrimination, predatory pricing, unfair competition and other restraints of trade. She regularly coordinates joint defense group efforts in cases involving conspiracy claims against multiple defendants.

Eva also has significant experience representing clients facing international cartel investigations and related follow-on civil class actions. She has helped clients navigate the difficult web of facing multiple, simultaneous government investigations around the world and has experience defending antitrust investigations brought by antitrust authorities in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Europe, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Singapore and New Zealand. She represents clients in both civil and criminal antitrust matters and, in addition to her representation of major U.S. and multinational corporations, she also represents individual executives facing criminal antitrust claims.

In this context, Eva has gained a great deal of experience assisting Japanese clients and is a core member of the firm’s Japan practice. Over the years, she has developed a deep and enduring respect for Japanese traditions and Japan’s unique business climate. She ensures that any client – whether in Japan or another part of the world – receives the same level of service as a client down the street. She also regularly acts as a liaison between non-U.S. based clients and their lawyers from other parts of the world to ensure global problems are handled consistently and efficiently.

In addition, Eva regularly advises companies with respect to antitrust compliance. Among other things, she helps companies develop antitrust compliance policies and training to help prevent antitrust problems. In particular, Eva has helped private equity funds with numerous portfolio companies and other types of corporations with multiple subsidiaries and affiliates develop comprehensive and consistent antitrust compliance programming.

In addition to Eva’s experience in the antitrust context, she has also represented clients facing consumer fraud and other business tort and breach of contract claims, as well as various constitutional claims. She has represented clients across multiple industries including consumer electronics, food and beverage, finance, sports and entertainment, and retail. Eva has represented clients in all stages of litigation, including appeals, and through trial as a first-chair litigator.

Eva brings personal attention to each and every matter she handles, recognizing that the best client relationships develop over time and mature into partnerships built on trust and familiarity. Clients benefit from her deep engagement, strategic thinking, practical approach, and efficient management of complex matters.