Alicia L. Downey — Member of Antitrust Law Council at American Bar Association

Alicia L. Downey serves as a Partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP. Ms. Downey has both litigation and counseling experience in competition, distribution, fiduciary and business law matters. She has litigated complex contract, business tort, antitrust, and unfair competition cases in federal and state courts and in various arbitration settings, including the International Chamber of Commerce, American Arbitration Association, National Association of Securities Dealers, and the New York Stock Exchange. Ms. Downey has handled numerous appeals with particular experience in supplier-dealer disputes. Her counseling experience includes providing advice and creative input into the development of pricing and marketing strategies, cooperative advertising programs, and distribution agreements for clients in diverse industries such as consumer goods, medical devices and technology licensing. She also provides strategic counseling on state and federal legislative developments in franchise and distribution law. For the past several years, Ms. Downey has been an active member of the Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association. She is Chair of the Section's Price Discrimination Committee and a member of the Distribution and Franchising Committee. She also serves as a Member of Antitrust Law Council at American Bar Association. She contributed a chapter to Antitrust Law and Economics of Product Distribution (ABA 2006), and was project editor of The Franchise and Dealership Termination Handbook (ABA 2004). Ms. Downey is frequently invited to speak in teleseminars and conferences on various antitrust and distribution-related topics. She is Co-Author of FTC Brings Complaint Based on 'Unfair' SDO Practices While the Federal Circuit Rejects FTC's Monopolization Case Against Rambus, American Intellectual Property Law Association Antitrust Committee Newsletter (May 2008). She was named Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Boston magazine for 2004-2007. Ms. Downey received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1993, Master of Arts from Harvard University in 1984 and Artis Baccalaureate, magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1984.