Special Counsel, New York Phone +1-212-558-1660 Fax +1-212-558-3588 Add to Address Book

Brad Smith joined Sullivan & Cromwell immediately after law school, and he was appointed Special Counsel in 2006. Mr. Smith's practice includes a wide range of commercial litigation, with particular emphasis in antitrust litigation and counseling, banking and commodities cases, and intellectual property.

Selected Transactions

Mr. Smith represents:

• Standard Chartered Bank in commercial litigation brought by a group of Brazilian individuals who claim to have lost money that they invested with an insolvent Antiguan bank.
• IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. in litigation against the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. concerning intellectual property claims asserted over published settlement prices for futures contracts.
• Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in putative class action antitrust litigation relating to the sale of thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels.
• Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in litigation arising from the transformation of the Montana Power Company into a telecommunications company.
• claimants against the United States in an appeal from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in litigation arising from government action that led to the 1992 seizure of Meritor Savings Bank.

Mr. Smith has represented:

• Microsoft Corporation in the landmark antitrust action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and 19 states and the District of Columbia from 1998 to 2004.
• Diageo plc in antitrust matters before the Federal Trade Commission relating to the formation in 2008 of a joint venture with Nolet Beheer B.V. relating to Ketel One vodka.
• Solvay S.A. in antitrust matters before the Federal Trade Commission relating to the 2008 acquisition of Solvay Engineered Polymers by Basell USA Inc.
• Akzo Nobel N.V. in antitrust matters before the Federal Trade Commission relating to the 2007 sale of Organon BioSciences N.V. to Schering-Plough Corporation.
• R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company in antitrust matters before the Federal Trade Commission relating to the 2007 acquisition of Von Hoffmann Holdings, Inc. from Visant Holding Corp.
• VeriFone Holdings, Inc. in antitrust matters before the U.S. Department of Justice relating to VeriFone’s 2006 merger with Lipman Electronic Engineering, Ltd.
• Allegheny Energy, Inc. and individual defendants in securities class action and derivative litigation arising from energy trading market conditions in late 2002.
• On a pro bono basis, the New York City Council in litigation challenging the validity of the Equal Benefits Law that was enacted in 2004.
• Archipelago Holdings, Inc. in antitrust matters before the U.S. Department of Justice relating to the 2005 merger of Archipelago with the New York Stock Exchange.