World-Class Litigator and Antitrust Attorney Allan Van Fleet Joins Greenberg
Traurig’s Houston Office
HOUSTON, TX -- February 7, 2006 -- The international law firm Greenberg
Traurig, LLP announced today that prominent litigator and antitrust attorney
Allan Van Fleet has joined the firm in the Antitrust Litigation Practice
Group. Van Fleet’s practice also includes complex commercial and technical
litigation; international litigation and arbitration; and legal ethics.
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Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig’s Houston office, Van Fleet practiced
at Vinson & Elkins for 28 years, where he was co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust
Practice Group. Van Fleet is recognized nationally and internationally in
The Best Lawyers in America and Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s
Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers, among other publications.
Texas Monthly magazine dubs Van Fleet a "Texas Super Lawyer," one
of the Top 100 in the state.
“Allan brings a world-class skill set and reputation, as well as strong
litigation capabilities, to our national antitrust practice,” said
Richard A. Rosenbaum, a
National Operating Shareholder.
“I've had a splendid career at Vinson & Elkins, and I am excited to take
my practice to a new level with Greenberg Traurig, one of the most dynamic
firms in the country - indeed, in the world,” said Van Fleet. “Greenberg
Traurig is known for its entrepreneurial spirit, but what won me over is
its commitment to a culture of collaboration and collegiality.”
Van Fleet’s recent representations include: a significant victory in
freeing a Baytown steel company from anticompetitive restrictions in contracts
with one of its competitors; obtaining a dismissal of a global electronics
giant in a Beaumont computer defect class action in which a co-defendant
settled for over $2 billion; winning an international arbitration award
requiring a Mexican railroad company to carry out its agreement to be acquired
by a U.S. railroad; and convincing the U.S. Department of Justice not to
challenge a regional airline’s acquisition of gates and other assets at
Chicago’s Midway Airport from a bankrupt airline.
Van Fleet is active in the bar, currently serving on the Board of Directors
of the State Bar of Texas. He has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates
and is an officer of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, responsible for oversight
of the Antitrust Section’s 26 substantive committees. He is the former chair
of the Houston Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. Van Fleet is also widely
published and active in pro bono work including representing University
of Texas Law School in the Hopwood case challenging affirmative action in
law school admissions. He is the past chair of Texas Appleseed and helped
write and lobby for the Fair Defense Act, which reformed the way counsel
are appointed for indigent criminal defendants in Texas. He previously served
the City of Houston during the Lanier and Brown administrations as Chair
of the Ethics Committee, which investigates alleged violations of the City’s
Ethics Code.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with 1,500
attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The
firm is ranked seventh on The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 listing of the
largest law firms in the U.S., based on number of lawyers.
Greenberg Traurig serves clients from offices in: Albany, NY; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Atlanta, GA; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver,
CO; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL;
Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Orange County, CA; Orlando, FL; Philadelphia, PA;
Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; Silicon Valley, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Tokyo, Japan;
Tysons Corner, VA; Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach, FL; Wilmington, DE; and Zurich,
Switzerland. Additionally, the firm has strategic alliances with the following independent
law firms: Olswang, London and Brussels; Studio Santa Maria, Milan and Rome; and
Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices in Tokyo.
For additional information, please visit the firm's Web site at
www.gtlaw.com.
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