Mark A.Cunningham
- Position
- Partner
- Office
- New Orleans
Mark Cunningham is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group and co-team leader of the corporate compliance and white collar defense team.
Mark is ranked in the first band — top tier — for white-collar crime and government investigations in Louisiana by Chambers USA. He is listed in Benchmark Litigation, Best Lawyers®, and noted multiple years as a New Orleans CityBusiness Leader in Law. Mark serves as primary outside antitrust and compliance counsel for companies in a wide range of industries. His recent litigation engagements include serving as lead antitrust counsel in Department of Justice antitrust price-fixing and merger investigations in the agriculture sector and representing the Group of Five NCAA College Football Playoff conferences in student athlete antitrust and concussion class actions and conference realignment disputes.
Mark also provides strategic transaction advice to clients on competition and trade issues related to the structuring of national and global distribution networks, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property protection. He is highly regarded for his creativity in providing practical solutions for clients confronting complex regulatory frameworks to achieve their business objectives, whether they are considering a strategic sale or an acquisition or new approaches to pricing, supply chain management, distribution, or product promotion. Mark’s recent Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and Department of Commerce engagements include complex, high-value transactions in the petrochemicals, telecommunications, maritime, energy, and agriculture sectors.
Much of Mark’s practice is also focused on representing clients selling pharmaceuticals, alcohol, and other consumer packaged goods to assure their compliance with Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Drug Enforcement Administration regulations and state consumer protection and tied-house laws. He also represents industry groups and group purchasing organizations to provide counseling and support for their standard-setting, benchmarking, and development of other member resources. Mark works closely with these organizations and their members to help them manage their communications, programming, and membership elections without running afoul of US and foreign antitrust laws.
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