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About
Provided by Gregory Asciolla
Practice Areas
Gregory Asciolla is a Partner in DiCello Levitt’s New York office, where he serves as Chair of the Firm’s Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice. Greg focuses on representing businesses, public pension funds, and health and welfare funds in complex antitrust and commodities class actions. Greg currently represents clients in antitrust matters involving price-fixing, monopolization, benchmark and commodities manipulation, pay-for-delay agreements, and other anticompetitive practices. He also has represented, pro bono, three Ugandan LGBTQ clients seeking asylum in the U.S.
Greg has recovered billions on behalf of his clients and leads extensive investigations into potential anticompetitive conduct, often resulting in first-to-file cases. Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Greg chaired a nationally-recognized antitrust practice group as a partner and oversaw significant growth in group size, leadership appointments, cases filed, investigations, and reputation. He also litigated and managed civil and criminal antitrust matters involving price-fixing, merger, and monopolization and conducted internal investigations and managed responses to government investigations on behalf of corporate targets as a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. Greg began his career as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he focused on anticompetitive conduct in the healthcare industry.
Career
Greg began his career as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, where he focused on anticompetitive conduct in the healthcare industry.
Professional Memberships
Greg is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Antitrust Law Section, and currently serves as co-chair of the antitrust and trade regulations committee of the New York County Lawyers' Association.
Publications
Greg's recent publications include "FDA Risk-Evaluation Guidance Unlikely to Help Generics" in Law360, and "Protecting Patents Through Tribal Sovereign Immunity: A Failed Experiment" in Antitrust Advisor.
Personal
In 2018, Greg led the pro bono litigation team that secured asylum for a young Ugandan man persecuted in his home country for being gay.
Chambers Review
USA
Gregory Asciolla is commended for his plaintiff-side antitrust practice. He regularly represents public pension funds and businesses in litigation pertaining to anticompetitive behavior in sectors including finance, commodities and pharmaceuticals.
Chair of the antitrust group, Gregory Asciolla deftly represents large plaintiff classes in multidistrict class action litigation alleging market price manipulations, particularly in the financial and pharmaceutical industries.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Gregory is a strong critical thinker."
"He takes great depositions and he is good on his feet."
"Gregory is a strong critical thinker."
"He takes great depositions and he is good on his feet."
"Gregory is a strong critical thinker."
"He takes great depositions and he is good on his feet."
"Gregory is a strong critical thinker."
"He takes great depositions and he is good on his feet."