Bio

Elai Katz leads Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's antitrust practice groups and is co-chair of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Elai's practice focuses principally on a wide range of antitrust law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, litigation, counseling and government investigations. Elai has successfully guided a broad range of transactions through antitrust and foreign investment regulatory reviews in the United States and abroad. He has represented buyers and sellers in many industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, media and telecommunications, online retailing and others. Elai has a particularly strong record in obtaining quick and positive resolutions during the early phases of merger reviews and is particularly attuned to the role global antitrust review plays in negotiating and completing mergers and acquisitions. Elai has represented clients in a variety of antitrust disputes, including complex class actions alleging price fixing and monopolization, as well as matters involving distribution arrangements and price discrimination. He regularly advises clients on the formation of joint ventures, development of distribution and marketing arrangements and pricing policies, participation in trade association activities and interaction with competitors. For more than a decade, Elai has been recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer by Chambers USA and was named in “Band 1” for Chambers USA 2022. He is also recognized by Benchmark Litigation, and The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers, and recognized as a “brilliant jurist with very strong strategic orientation” by The Legal 500, among others. Chambers USA remarked that Elai has “a concise and pragmatic way of advising clients, explaining complex issues in simple terms." Chambers USA remarked that Elai has “a concise and pragmatic way of advising clients, explaining complex issues in simple terms," with "deep insights into the industry." Elai joined Cahill as an associate in 1997 and became a partner in 2005.