Milbank LLP Antitrust partners Fiona Schaeffer and James Weingarten will serve as panelists at the Informa Antitrust West Coast Conference on May 13–14 in San Francisco.
Ms. Schaeffer will lead a panel on “Navigating Cross Border M&A in a Geopolitical World: The New Playbook,” examining the current domestic and international merger enforcement and foreign direct investment landscape through the lens of recent high-profile matters, including HPE-Juniper, Nippon Steel/U.S. Steel and Edwards Lifesciences/JenaValve. A seasoned international antitrust practitioner with over 30 years of experience, Ms. Schaeffer is entrusted by clients to guide their most complex strategic transactions. She was recently recognized by Global Competition Review as the 2026 global “Competition Lawyer of the Year.”
Mr. Weingarten will lead a discussion on practical antitrust guidance for in-house counsel, addressing how compliance programs can serve as tools for preventing violations and mitigating penalties, strategies for designing comprehensive frameworks, and approaches to fostering a culture of compliance across an organization. Before joining Milbank, Mr. Weingarten served as Chief Trial Counsel for the FTC, where he litigated and tried some of the government's most significant antitrust cases, including FTC v. Microsoft/Activision, FTC v. AbbVie, Inc., FTC v. Kroger/Albertsons and FTC v. Sanofi/Maze.
The Antitrust West Coast Conference convenes federal agency officials, in-house counsel and private practice attorneys to exchange perspectives on today's most pressing competition law issues. Learn more about the event here.
