Reiko Cyr has been an attorney with Constantine Cannon, a nationally recognized law firm that specializes in antitrust litigation and counseling, and complex commercial litigation, since 2002.

While with Constantine Cannon, Ms. Cyr has represented both defendants and plaintiffs in antitrust cases, litigating matters involving claims of monopolization, conspiracy to monopolize, false advertising and Robinson-Patman price discrimination. She has also done significant federal and state commercial litigation work involving claims of breach of contract, theft of trade secrets and tortious interference. Ms. Cyr has also represented clients in Department of Justice investigations relating to merger review. Ms. Cyr has experience working on matters in the electronic payment systems, freestanding inserts, advertising and marketing, broadcast satellite distribution, magazine distribution and pharmaceuticals industries.

Prior to joining Constantine Cannon, Ms. Cyr articled at Johnston & Buchan, a Canadian communications law firm in Ottawa. There, she worked primarily on broadcasting matters for clients involved in radio, cable, satellite and television, as well as telecommunications, copyright and trademark matters. Her work included research for and preparation of licensing applications, renewals and interventions submitted to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for radio and cable operators and market analyses for radio and cable acquisitions.

Ms. Cyr graduated from the four-year program at McGill University, Faculty of Law in 1999, in Montreal, Canada, where she received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.). While studying law, Ms. Cyr was also a Judicial Board Member of the McGill University student newspaper, a legal clinic volunteer and a legal researcher for the Canadian Human Rights Foundation.

Ms. Cyr obtained a Bachelor of Science specializing in microbiology from the University of Alberta in 1990. After graduating, she worked in Japan on a project for one year analyzing wheat evolutionary genetics at Yokohama City University. In Canada, Ms. Cyr worked in the public health sector in diagnostic virology, in medicine doing kidney transplantation research and in molecular biology conducting research on genes affecting development. And more recently in New York, she worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a laboratory technician in cell biology. Ms Cyr also spent six years volunteering in community radio as a spoken word programmer and elected board member.

Ms. Cyr is admitted to the New York State Bar (2001), as well as the Supreme Court, the Second and Ninth Circuits, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Wisconsin. She is also a regular contributor to the Antitrust Communications Industry Committee of the American Bar Association and was recently appointed Vice-Chair of the Committee. Ms. Cyr is a co-chair of the Litigation Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York. Ms. Cyr is a contributor to the ABA Section of Antitrust Law's Antitrust Law Developments (6th edition, 2007). Her work on ALD6 concerned the Communications portion of the Regulated Industries chapter.