J. Mark Gidley — Partner at White & Case LLP

Mr. J. Mark Gidley is currently employed at White & Case, L.L.P. in the position of Partner. J. Mark Gidley, who concentrates in antitrust matters, has served as Acting Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Regulatory Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (1991-93). From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Gidley served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where he was responsible for civil and criminal antitrust enforcement in regulated industries, such as banking and financial institutions, the securities exchanges, health care and other professions, telecommunications, transportation and energy, as well as in computers, intellectual property, and higher education. While at the Division, Mr. Gidley personally supervised the government securities investigation into NASDAQ which resulted in a $28 million asset forfeiture action against a major securities firm, the largest penalty ever in the Division's history, and numerous merger investigations, including an $11 billion divestiture stemming from the nation's largest bank merger. He helped to draft and implement the 1992 DOJ-FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines. As Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Gidley brought the successful action against U.S. domestic air carriers for alleged price fixing activities in a computerized data exchange. Mr. Gidley was also responsible for the Justice Department's competition advocacy before DOT, FCC, FERC, and FMC and was responsible for enforcement of a number of consent decrees, including the judgment involving AT&T and the Bell Operating Companies. Between 1990 and 1991, Mr. Gidley served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department, where he supervised a $190 million settlement relating to the Ill Wind investigation of defense contractors. Mr. Gidley returned to private practice in 1993. His practice is heavily focused on transactions, and he has also participated in numerous investigations and counseling in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in industries ranging from silicon chips, health care, telecommunications, computer software, retailing defense and publishing to engineering, energy, minerals, and industrial and consumer goods. In 1995, he won approval of a production joint venture involving the only two producers of the U.S. Navy's Standard Missile. In 1997, he represented the Raytheon Company to secure regulatory approval for its acquisitions of Texas Instruments Defense Business and Hughes Electronics. In 1998, he represented Royal Ahold in its acquisition of the Giant Food supermarket chain of Landover, Maryland. Mr. Gidley represented Iron Mountain, Inc. in its successful acquisition of Pierce Leahy in 1999. Mr. Gidley represents plaintiffs and defendants in private antitrust disputes, as well as complaining parties and targets of governmental civil and criminal investigations, and has experience in corporate compliance matters. He successfully represented defendants in United States v. Agrimark, a contested antitrust consent decree matter which resulted in a favorable disposition for the defendants and overturned sixty years of settled law on antitrust consent decrees. Mr. Gidley is a founding member of White & Case's B2B practice group. He has extensive experience in creating, establishing, and challenging information exchanges, and represented a consortium of mortgage industry firms to obtain a favorable DOJ business review for a unique exchange of nonpublic fraud incidents by the Mortgage Asset Research Institute. He serves as General Counsel to the Real Estate Information Providers Association and regularly speaks on antitrust issues pertaining to information exchanges, privacy and the Internet. In a survey of antitrust lawyers around the world, the Global Competition Review gave Mr. Gidley its highest ranking for a U.S. antitrust lawyer and top ten worldwide in its 1998 '45 under 45' survey of lawyers and general counsel. He received his B.S. and B.G.S. from University of Kansas in 1983 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1986.