Nelson O Fitts
USA Guide 2024
Band 2 : Antitrust
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About
Provided by Nelson O Fitts
Practice Areas
Focuses on analysis of competition issues in mergers, acquisitions, auctions, joint ventures, takeover defense and advocacy before federal, state and foreign antitrust authorities.
Career
Joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 2000 following a clerkship for the Honorable John G. Heyburn II of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in Louisville and was named partner in 2007. He practices in the firm's Antitrust Department. He is included among the International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and is a frequent writer and lecturer on antitrust and mergers and acquisitions. In 2012, Global Competition Review named him one of the top 40 competition lawyers under the age of 40 worldwide.
Professional Memberships
He sserved on the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. He is a trustee of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.
Personal
He received an AB in History cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 and a JD from Columbia Law School in 1999. At Columbia, he was a James Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Chambers Review
USA
Nelson Fitts manages a broad range of antitrust issues including transactional adjacent matters pertaining to acquisitions, joint ventures and takeovers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nelson is an extremely good merger lawyer."
"Nelson is an extremely good merger lawyer."
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