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PLATINUM SPONSOR
Axinn LLP
Experienced, tenacious, and always trial-ready, Axinn LLP is committed to understanding complex legal challenges that impact the future of their clients’ businesses, globally.
Focusing on antitrust, intellectual property, and high-stakes litigation, their extensive teams in the U.S. possess deep knowledge and client-side experience across a range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, and consumer products.
With a strong culture of respect, collaboration, and fairness, they build relationships with their clients and colleagues alike — creating opportunity, supporting communities, and acting with purpose. Their client service, entrepreneurialism, and inquisitive nature sit at the heart of the firm, enabling them to prioritize client goals and achieve successful outcomes.
Focusing on antitrust, intellectual property, and high-stakes litigation, their extensive teams in the U.S. possess deep knowledge and client-side experience across a range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, and consumer products.
With a strong culture of respect, collaboration, and fairness, they build relationships with their clients and colleagues alike — creating opportunity, supporting communities, and acting with purpose. Their client service, entrepreneurialism, and inquisitive nature sit at the heart of the firm, enabling them to prioritize client goals and achieve successful outcomes.
NETWORKING LUNCH SPONSOR
Bates White Economic Consulting
Bates White Economic Consulting offers services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. They specialize in advanced economic, financial, and econometric analysis and excel at complex matters that require sophisticated problem solving and deep empirical analysis.
Established in 1999 and privately held, they have a culture where bright minds from diverse cultures solve difficult challenges. They build strong, collaborative relationships with their clients, within their team, and in the community. Their firm is distinguished by the strength of their collective experiences—intellectual and analytical rigor, creativity, responsiveness, and practical know-how.
In each matter, they take a hands-on approach to develop a deep understanding of relevant industry, factual, and legal contexts. They are consistently recognized for an ability to support their opinions with sound economic theory and rigorous empirical analyses that withstand intense scrutiny. Their experts are noted for their ability to communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to litigators, judges, juries, and government enforcers.
With extensive experience in the application of economics to a wide range of industries and issues, most of their professionals hold PhD or master’s level degrees. They complement their in-house expertise through an extensive network of leading academics and industry experts. Many of their senior staff and academic affiliates have significant government agency experience.
Established in 1999 and privately held, they have a culture where bright minds from diverse cultures solve difficult challenges. They build strong, collaborative relationships with their clients, within their team, and in the community. Their firm is distinguished by the strength of their collective experiences—intellectual and analytical rigor, creativity, responsiveness, and practical know-how.
In each matter, they take a hands-on approach to develop a deep understanding of relevant industry, factual, and legal contexts. They are consistently recognized for an ability to support their opinions with sound economic theory and rigorous empirical analyses that withstand intense scrutiny. Their experts are noted for their ability to communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively to litigators, judges, juries, and government enforcers.
With extensive experience in the application of economics to a wide range of industries and issues, most of their professionals hold PhD or master’s level degrees. They complement their in-house expertise through an extensive network of leading academics and industry experts. Many of their senior staff and academic affiliates have significant government agency experience.
Gold SPONSORS
Baker Botts
Copilot said: Baker Botts is a leading global law firm. The foundation for its differentiated client support rests on deep business acumen and technical experience built over decades of focused leadership across its sectors and practices. Its insights help clients see over the horizon and anticipate opportunities and challenges related to their business objectives
From its history in the energy industry, to establishing deep benches of talent in intellectual property, technology, and life sciences, the firm has a heritage of helping clients push into new business frontiers.
The firm continuously mobilises teams from across its practice, specifically designed to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. These teams are comprised of the right lawyers with the right experience, cross-functional perspectives and capabilities, spanning its offices, practice groups and departments.
This ethos is reflected in the firm's cultural commitments, which include its distinctive collaborative entrepreneurship and culture of apprenticeship.
Baker Botts views diversity and inclusion as a business imperative and is proud to continue being recognised by Diversity Lab as “Mansfield Certified Plus”.
The firm takes seriously its responsibility to support colleagues of colour and ensure that its diversity and inclusion efforts are meaningful in driving lasting change.
Baker Botts has invested heavily in technology and infrastructure that enable it to communicate more effectively with clients, forecast and manage budgets, and meet clients' increasingly complex and critical needs.
From its history in the energy industry, to establishing deep benches of talent in intellectual property, technology, and life sciences, the firm has a heritage of helping clients push into new business frontiers.
The firm continuously mobilises teams from across its practice, specifically designed to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. These teams are comprised of the right lawyers with the right experience, cross-functional perspectives and capabilities, spanning its offices, practice groups and departments.
This ethos is reflected in the firm's cultural commitments, which include its distinctive collaborative entrepreneurship and culture of apprenticeship.
Baker Botts views diversity and inclusion as a business imperative and is proud to continue being recognised by Diversity Lab as “Mansfield Certified Plus”.
The firm takes seriously its responsibility to support colleagues of colour and ensure that its diversity and inclusion efforts are meaningful in driving lasting change.
Baker Botts has invested heavily in technology and infrastructure that enable it to communicate more effectively with clients, forecast and manage budgets, and meet clients' increasingly complex and critical needs.
Burford Capital
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE AIM: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore and Dubai.
Cornerstone Research
Cornerstone Research provides economic and financial consulting and expert testimony in all phases of complex disputes and regulatory investigations. The firm works with an extensive network of prominent academics and industry practitioners to identify the best-qualified expert for each assignment. With a reputation for high quality and effectiveness, Cornerstone Research has consistently delivered rigorous, state-of-the-art analysis since 1989. The firm has more than 1,000 professionals in nine offices across the United States, UK, and EU.
Docket Navigator
Docket Navigator is a litigation research and analytics platform that delivers deep insights into US federal patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, securities and trade secret litigation. Based in Texas, Docket Navigator’s unique and innovative approach to modeling court cases in a digital platform has made it a must-have tool for patent litigators in the US, including over 16,000 attorneys, judges, clerks, litigation support firms, expert witness firms, tech companies and researchers. Docket Navigator delivers insights to its subscribers via a daily email called the Docket Report, customised daily alerts, a searchable online database, and powerful analytics tools. Eighty-eight of the AmLaw 100 firms, and 28 of the top 30 ‘busiest’ patent litigation firms (based on the number of patent cases filed each year) maintain subscriptions to Docket Navigator.
Econic Partners
Econic Partners produces complex economic, financial, and econometric analysis for corporations, government agencies, non-profit associations, and law firms.
With a diverse team of world-renowned economists and a reputation for delivering rigorous, data-driven analysis, they provide strategic insights and expert testimony on some of the world’s most high-stakes legal and regulatory matters.
With a diverse team of world-renowned economists and a reputation for delivering rigorous, data-driven analysis, they provide strategic insights and expert testimony on some of the world’s most high-stakes legal and regulatory matters.
Freshfields
Freshfields is a global law firm with a longstanding track record of successfully supporting the world's leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments on groundbreaking and business-critical mandates. Our 2,800-plus lawyers deliver results worldwide through our own offices and alongside leading local firms. Our commitment, local and multi-national expertise and business know-how means that our clients rely on us when it matters most.
Silver SPONSORS
Analysis Group
Analysis Group is one of the largest international economics consulting firms, with more than 1,500 professionals across 15 offices in Europe, North America and Asia. Competition and merger reviews have been a core focus since our inception in 1981. We integrate industrial organisation theory, industry-specific expertise and the latest quantitative analytical methods to analyse the conduct and market dynamics at issue in a wide array of competition matters. We bring our core expertise in economics, finance, accounting, statistics and data science to bear in merger reviews, regulatory proceedings and follow-on damages actions, including collective actions. Our experts have provided antitrust analyses and testimony in significant horizontal and vertical mergers worldwide.
BakerHostetler
For more than a century, BakerHostetler has maintained an unwavering dedication to the highest standards of client service. As our clients evolve in today’s dynamic and changing business world, so do we. With more than 1,000 attorneys across 18 offices coast to coast, we provide clients with sophisticated, nuanced and innovative legal counsel. We work with clients with global footprints to address their most complex and critical business, advocacy and regulatory issues.
BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition Team: Clients trust us to guide their most complex antitrust litigation, provide profitable business and transaction advice, and successfully defend against challenging government investigations worldwide. Our diverse team includes more than 50 antitrust lawyers, many of them former high-ranking regulators from key government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, as well as state attorneys general. With a well-established record of success, we are recognized as a leading practice by Global Competition Review (ranked in both the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania), Chambers USA and The Legal 500.
BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition Team: Clients trust us to guide their most complex antitrust litigation, provide profitable business and transaction advice, and successfully defend against challenging government investigations worldwide. Our diverse team includes more than 50 antitrust lawyers, many of them former high-ranking regulators from key government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, as well as state attorneys general. With a well-established record of success, we are recognized as a leading practice by Global Competition Review (ranked in both the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania), Chambers USA and The Legal 500.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
At Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), they serve a diverse national and international client base. Their integrated network of offices provides clients with access to the Firm’s full spectrum of capabilities in virtually every area of business law.
Thanks to their clients, Blakes continues to earn top rankings and accolades. The Firm consistently stands out as a market leader in Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which named them Corporate Law Firm of the Year based on their performance in the 2025 guide. For litigation and dispute resolution, they hold three Firm of the Year titles from the 2024 Benchmark Canada Awards. Their lawyers also continue to be recognized as leaders in their fields in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Canada’s leading guide to lawyers.
Blakes was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2025 and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for 2024, underscoring their commitment to workplace excellence and inclusion.
Thanks to their clients, Blakes continues to earn top rankings and accolades. The Firm consistently stands out as a market leader in Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which named them Corporate Law Firm of the Year based on their performance in the 2025 guide. For litigation and dispute resolution, they hold three Firm of the Year titles from the 2024 Benchmark Canada Awards. Their lawyers also continue to be recognized as leaders in their fields in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Canada’s leading guide to lawyers.
Blakes was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2025 and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for 2024, underscoring their commitment to workplace excellence and inclusion.
Charles River Associates
Experience that counts for more.
Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. Their experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to bear on their clients’ most complex challenges.
CRA specializes in management consulting and economic litigation. Their senior-led teams include leading academic experts and business leaders with experience across industries. Because of their proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, clients depend on their objective, fact-based advice for their high-profile, high stakes matters.
Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. Their experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to bear on their clients’ most complex challenges.
CRA specializes in management consulting and economic litigation. Their senior-led teams include leading academic experts and business leaders with experience across industries. Because of their proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, clients depend on their objective, fact-based advice for their high-profile, high stakes matters.
White & Case
White & Case is a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Their on‑the‑ground experience, cross‑border integration and depth of local, US and English‑qualified lawyers help their clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.
They guide their clients through difficult issues, bringing their insight and judgment to each situation. Their innovative approaches create original solutions to their clients’ most complex domestic and multijurisdictional deals and disputes.
By thinking on behalf of their clients every day, they anticipate what those clients want, provide what they need and build lasting relationships. They do what it takes to help their clients achieve their ambitions.
They guide their clients through difficult issues, bringing their insight and judgment to each situation. Their innovative approaches create original solutions to their clients’ most complex domestic and multijurisdictional deals and disputes.
By thinking on behalf of their clients every day, they anticipate what those clients want, provide what they need and build lasting relationships. They do what it takes to help their clients achieve their ambitions.
Supporting OrganisationS
Law.com
Law.com provides lawyers within the world’s leading law firms and legal departments (Global 200, Law.com subscribers, GCs at the F1000) with news and analysis of the global legal industry, insights into what’s happening across all sectors of the legal industry in all major markets around the world. Law.com is the world’s legal authority, offering quality local coverage with global insights & trends on the entire legal industry to give international lawyers the competitive edge and business intelligence needed to grow their business worldwide.
Lexology
Lexology delivers the most comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights. Publishing in excess of 450 articles every day from over 900 leading law firms and service providers worldwide across over 50 work areas in 25 languages. Lexology’s searchable archive now contains more than 1,000,000 articles. Endorsed by more than 100 associations, corporations and corporate counsel groups, Lexology is not only considered an invaluable resource of its kind, but also regarded as the industry benchmark.



















