Antitrust attorneys from Constantine Cannon and Robins Kaplan are launching an antitrust boutique law firm, just a week after the Justice Department suit against Visa Inc. showed the Biden administration continuing its crackdown.

Former Constantine Cannon partners Matthew Cantor and Jeffrey Shinder, and former co-chair of Robin Kaplan’s antitrust and trade regulation group Kellie Lerner are starting the new firm with offices in New York and Washington DC.

“We’re in a moment where antitrust has a resurrected profile, which had languished for 50 years,” Shinder said in an interview.

Antitrust litigation has been an active arena for many law firms with the Biden administration’s aggressive enforcement. The Justice lawsuit last week against Visa accused the global payments processor of illegally monopolizing debit cards by penalizing merchants and paying potential rivals. Justice and the Federal Trade Commission also set a record in fiscal 2022 for the number of merger challenges it brought.

Regardless of whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump win the election next month, the current antitrust momentum is too strong to be undone, Lerner said.

“You can’t unscramble the egg,” she said. “What this administration has done to push forward antitrust is not something that can be pushed back in any easy way.”

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