Matt Tabas has extensive experience handling clients' most complex antitrust issues. His practice focuses on government reviews of mergers and acquisitions, antitrust litigation, civil government investigations, and antitrust counseling. In particular, he has represented clients in all phases of merger clearance, before the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state antitrust enforcement authorities, as well as before federal courts in litigated challenges by the government. He also frequently represents clients in high-stakes civil antitrust litigation.
Matt regularly represents clients in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, life sciences, medical devices, technology, media and entertainment, telecommunications, semiconductors, consumer products, food, and retail.
Experience
- AbbVie in its US$8.7 billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics.
- Pfizer in numerous transactions, including its US$43 billion acquisition of Seagen Inc. and its US$6.7 billion acquisition of Arena Pharmaceuticals.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb in numerous transactions, including its US$90 billion acquisition of Celgene, its US$14 billion acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics, and its US$4.1 billion acquisition of Turning Point Therapeutics.
- Sony in its US$3.6 billion acquisition of games software developer Bungie.
- Billie Inc. in the sale of its business to Edgewell Personal Care.
Perspectives
Recognition
"Ones to Watch" Litigation: Antitrust (Washington, D.C.) (2022-2025)
Credentials
Education
- J.D., St. John's University School of Law, 2008
- A.B., Colby College, 2003, cum laude
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Government & Military Service
- Counsel to the Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
- International Exchange Competition Law Officer, Mergers Branch, Competition Bureau Canada
- Attorney, Mergers IV, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
Activities
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Member, ABA Section of Antitrust Law
- Vice Chair, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Podcast Committee (2024-2025)
- Co-Host, ABA Section of Antitrust Law’s "Our Curious Amalgam" Podcast
- Vice-Chair, ABA Section of Antitrust Law Media & Technology Committee (2021–2024)
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Young Lawyer Representative, Agriculture & Food Committee, ABA Section of Antitrust Law (2014–2015)