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Mr. King is a partner at Hausfeld LLP’s San Francisco office, and represents plaintiffs in numerous high-profile competition matters, including antitrust cases, and in other complex litigation. He has been recognized as a top plaintiff’s attorney by Levick Strategic Communications, one of the nation’s leading crisis management firms for corporations and individuals facing high-profile legal issues.

 

Mr. King currently is one of the lead attorneys for the plaintiffs in In re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Licensing Litigation, a nationwide class action pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of CA. In this action that has drawn intense national interest, also known as the O’Bannon and Keller litigation, Mr. King represents putative classes of current and former NCAA men’s Division I basketball and football players who assert antitrust and right of publicity claims and contend that the NCAA, Electronic Arts, and others unlawfully used the players’ images and likenesses in video-games in addition to a host of other products.

 

Mr. King has been quoted and cited in numerous publications regarding sports as well as competition law matters, including in The New York Times, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, ESPN.com, Bloomberg news, SportsBusiness Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yahoo! Sports, and has been interviewed on NPR Radio, CBS Radio, and numerous other forums.

 

He began his legal career in Los Angeles at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, one of the largest law firms in the world, where he worked on matters for the National Football League and various entertainment industry companies. Mr. King has counseled and advised athletes in numerous other matters, including licensing deals, labor relations issues, eligibility, and endorsement / personal appearance issues.

 

Mr. King currently represents the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District, the governmental entity that operates the world famous Golden Gate Bridge and various transit systems, as one of the plaintiffs in In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1663 (D.N.J.), a case that has resulted in approximately $220 million in settlements to date. Mr. King also counseled a federal governmental entity, a leading California utility company, and various large corporations with respect to settlement rights in that matter. Other active matters of Mr. King’s include nationwide antitrust litigation regarding the LCD, automotive lighting, and railroad industries.

 

Other current plaintiff clients of Mr. King’s include a major publically-traded Silicon Valley corporation that has filed arbitration against its investment bank regarding alleged wrongful financial advice with respect to $10 million in investments in auction rate securities.

 

Last year, Mr. King served as plaintiff’s co-lead trial counsel in a case in regarding the insurance industry in which the plaintiff obtained a jury verdict four times greater than the last settlement offer, prior to confidential settlement after trial. Mr. King also served as co-lead arbitration counsel in a two week arbitration regarding the distribution of financial products. Recent depositions includes taking the depositions of several top executives of Union Pacific railroad in Omaha in In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation, and taking the depositions in Taipei, Taiwan of several of the world’s top automotive lighting executives in In re Aftermarket Automotive Lighting Products Antitrust Litigation.

 

With respect to international disputes, Mr. King represented the leading French consumer association UFC-Que Choisir in connection with its efforts to gather evidence to prepare European antitrust litigation against Intel Corporation related to the litigation in the United States captioned In re Intel Corporation Microprocessor Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1717 (D. Del.), in which plaintiffs allege monopolization of the market for x86 microprocessors. Mr. King also worked on an international arbitration matter for ARCO Oil Company relating to a contractual dispute.

 

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. King practiced antitrust law for eight years at The Furth Firm LLP, a San Francisco plaintiffs’ firm, and for one year at Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., out of which the Hausfeld firm was born. At those firms, Mr. King has worked on dozens of direct and indirect purchaser actions that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements. At The Furth Firm, Mr. King was appointed as plaintiffs’ interim liaison counsel in the complex antitrust case captioned Hydrogen Peroxide Cases (San Francisco Superior Court, JCCP No. 4416), and he has been quoted on antitrust class action topics in Rubber & Plastics News and Competition Law 360. Mr. King also served on the 2009 Editorial Advisory Board for Competition Law360 as the only representative from a plaintiffs’ firm.

 

Mr. King also has counseled numerous individual, corporate and governmental entities regarding proposed mergers in several industries, has counseled a leading California winery with respect to a distributor dispute before a state alcoholic beverage commission. With respect to merger issues, Mr. King advised the City and County of San Francisco regarding the proposed merger of two hospital groups, advised numerous individuals, a hospital association, a medical center, a doctors’ association and an insurance company trade association with respect to challenges to a proposed insurance company merger, and has consulted on issues regarding the merger of media entities.

 

Mr. King also works as a member of the firm’s International Practice, and has conducted recent meetings in China, Japan, and Korea in conjunction with several of the firm’s international litigation matters.

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