Hunton & Williams LLP

Ray Hartwell has over 30 years’ experience in antitrust and competition-related investigations, litigation and counselling, and has represented more than 50 corporations and executives in connection with criminal antitrust and international cartel investigations and related issues of amnesty and leniency in the United States, Canada and Europe. His practice also includes merger filings and review in the United States and abroad, corporate compliance programmes and internal investigations, and antitrust and related class action and similar litigation.

Mr Hartwell currently serves as a member of the International Task Force of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and is the co-chair of the Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee. He has previously served on the council of the section, as chair of the Compliance and Ethics Committee (2005 to 2008), and as a member of the Association’s task force on antitrust sentencing guidelines. He has chaired the antitrust sections of both the District of Columbia Bar and the Virginia State Bar. He sits on the editorial board of The Antitrust Bulletin and served as editor of the ABA Handbook on Grand Jury Investigations (2nd edn, 1988). He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists, The Best Lawyers in America and the Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers. He was recently elected to be a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mr Hartwell graduated summa cum laude from Washington & Lee University law school, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review and was elected to the Order of the Coif and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was an officer in the US Navy from 1969 to 1972, and managed the firm’s office in Brussels from 1992 to 1994.