H. Stephen Harris Jr. (Steve)

Partner

Steve Harris practices antitrust law, including class actions and cartel and merger investigations, before U.S. and international courts and agencies. He also represents financial institutions in complex regulatory and commercial litigation. Steve has extensive experience in Asia and serves as the Firm's Asia competition law coordinator.

Steve handles civil and criminal antitrust litigation and cartel investigations in a broad range of industries, including financial institutions, pharmaceuticals, information technology, electronics, health care, consumer products, retail, and software. He also has represented major money-center banks in numerous cases against U.S. financial regulatory agencies. Recently, Steve represented a major Asian electronics manufacturer in class action antitrust litigation in California and, on appeal, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Steve also recently represented a European chemical manufacturer in the successful defense of a cartel investigation and in follow-on civil class action litigation in several U.S. federal district courts.

Steve is editor-in-chief and coauthor of the two-volume treatise Competition Laws Outside the United States, published by the American Bar Association. He has served as the international officer of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, as well as a member of its Council, as vice chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, and as a member of the International Bar Association Competition Law Committee. He speaks and writes frequently on antitrust topics. Steve is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the advisory board of the BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report.