Jeffrey I. Shinder is the Managing Partner of Constantine Cannon's New York office. Mr. Shinder specializes in antitrust counseling and litigation, and has expertise in numerous industries, including payment systems, high technology airlines, banking, cable television, collectibles, direct broadcast satellite, electronic banking, health care, pharmaceuticals, sports, telecommunications and utilities.

Mr. Shinder has counseled clients on a vast range of antitrust issues, including antitrust compliance programs, Hart-Scott-Rodino Act reporting requirements and the preparation of Hart-Scott-Rodino filings, pre-merger coordination activities and information exchanges, the negotiation or modification of consent decrees, compliance with Civil Investigative Demands, trade associations, joint ventures, competitor collaborations, distribution practices, structured terminations and retail pricing policies, Robinson-Patman Act issues, and pending investigations and merger reviews conducted by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.

Mr. Shinder recently served as Special Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission. In that role, he worked on designated projects for Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour.

Mr. Shinder was named by Law & Politics as a New York Super Lawyer for 2007. Click here to read announcement.

Mr. Shinder's antitrust litigation experience includes the following high profile matters:

• Discover v. Visa/MasterCard - Mr. Shinder represents Discover Financial Services LLC in its damages lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard.
  
• In Re Visa Check/MasterMoney Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y.) - Mr. Shinder represents Wal-Mart, Sears, The Limited, Safeway, Circuit City, the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute, and the International Mass Retailers Association and a certified class of 4 million merchants, who are challenging Visa and MasterCard's Honor-All-Cards Rules under the Sherman Act. The case settled on the eve of trial in the largest private antitrust settlement in U.S. history.
  
• United States v. Primestar - Mr. Shinder represented The News Corporation in the Department of Justice's suit to block the sale of certain direct broadcast satellite assets to a consortium of cable companies.
• Liberty Cable v. Time Warner - Mr. Shinder represented Liberty Cable, a cable overbuilder in New York City, in its monopolization suit against Time Warner Cable of New York.
• Diskin v. Daily Racing Form - Mr. Shinder represented K-III Communications Co. Inc. (now Primedia, Inc.) in its successful defense of an antitrust suit concerning the merger of two past performance publications in the thoroughbred horse racing industry.

Mr. Shinder has written and lectured extensively on various antitrust issues. Mr. Shinder was a contributing author to the Fourth Edition of The Antitrust Advisor, a major antitrust hornbook, published by McGraw-Hill, Inc. He also drafts the annual update of the state antitrust law section of Legal Aspects of Buying and Selling, a leading antitrust treatise. He has lectured on antitrust issues related to e-commerce, focusing on the Microsoft lawsuit and the antitrust issues raised by business-to-business ("B2B") joint ventures. He has also lectured on the interface between antitrust law and intellectual property. Mr. Shinder has lectured for the International School of Management on comparative U.S./E.U. Antitrust law, focusing on merger enforcement.

Mr. Shinder's publications include:

• The Return Of Section 5 Of The FTC Act?, (with Taline Sahakian) published in the March 13, 2008 edition of Competition Law 360.
• VIEWPOINT: The FTC's Quixotic Pursuit of the Whole Foods/Wild Oats Merger, published in eSapience Center for Competition Policy on Nov. 7, 2007.
• When Market Definition Trumps Competitive Effects Analysis: First Data/ Concord Versus In Re Visa Check, published in the Fall 2004 edition of Antitrust Magazine.
• Rigging the System? Permitting Anticompetitive Settlements, published in the June, 2004 edition of The Health Lawyer.
• The Great Canadian Debit Debate, published in the May, 2004 edition of Credit Card Management.
• Wal-Mart Decision Illustrates Merchants' New Debit Power, published in the February 6, 2004 edition of American Banker.
• A Real Battle With RealNetworks, the Microsoft Settlement Fails Its First Test, published in the January 20, 2004 edition of the New York Law Journal.
• Consolidation Raises Antitrust Issues, published in the June 17, 2002 edition of the Multichannel News.
• Restoring The Balance Between Intellectual Property Rights and The Antitrust Laws - The Xerox Case And Its Aftermath, published in the May 6, 2002 edition of Mealey's Litigation Report: Intellectual Property.
• Hammering It Out, published in the February 22, 2002 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
• Smart Antitrust Compliance Programs, published in the January/February 2002 edition of the Corporate Board.
• The Microsoft Settlement, Another Better Course, published in the January 7, 2002 edition of the National Law Journal.
• Merger Hindsight, published in the November 28, 2001 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
• Time-of-Suit Challenges to Mergers and the New Hart-Scott Rodino Act Reporting Requirements, published in the August 2001 edition of Altman Weil's In-house Practice & Management Journal.
• United and American Airlines' Restructuring Of the Airline Industry: Will the Bush Administration Act?, published in the June 2001 issue of the Andrews Antitrust Litigation Reporter.

His speeches and presentations include the following:

• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly: A Discussion of the Potential Impact that the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision will have on Antitrust Cases and Beyond, participated as a panel member for the ABA-CLE Teleconference on July 11, 2007.
• Beyond Trinko and Twombly: The Role of Private Consumer Actions in Detecting and Providing Remedies for Antitrust Violations presented during the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law 2007 Spring Meeting on April 18, 2007.
• Recent Developments in International Antitrust Law & Practice presented during the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Annual Conference on April 13, 2007.
• In Re Visa Check distribution, presented to Airline Transport Association on September 27, 2005.
• The Future of Debit Interchange presented to ATM & Debit Forum 2005 on September 26, 2005.
• The Future of Visa and MasterCard presented to Lafferty International Cards & Payments Council on May 11, 2005.
• The Future of Debit in the Aftermath of the Merchant Litigation Against Visa and MasterCard presented to the American Bar Association Business Law Section on August 8, 2004.
• Trademark and Antitrust Law presented to the Practicing Law Institute, Advanced Seminar on Trademark Law on May 19, 2004.
• The Future of Debit in the Aftermath of the Merchant Litigation Against Visa and MasterCard presented to Thomson Card Forum on May 6, 2004.
• The Future of Debit in the Aftermath of the Merchant Litigation Against Visa and MasterCard presented to the Pulse EFT Board of Directors on April 6, 2004.
• Antitrust and Copyright Law presented to Random House on March 23, 2004.
• In Re Visa Check/MasterMoney Antitrust Litigation What it Means for the Future of Debit, presented to the Electronic Funds Transfer Association on October 1, 2003.

Mr. Shinder graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada in 1991, and received a Masters of Law in Trade Regulation, specializing in antitrust and international trade law, from New York University School of Law in 1994. Mr. Shinder was a member of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York. Prior to joining Constantine & Cannon, Mr. Shinder was associated, as an articling student and summer associate, with the Toronto office of Goodman & Goodman. Mr. Shinder is a member of the bars of the State of New York and the Province of Ontario. Mr. Shinder belongs to the American and New York State Bar Associations, the antitrust section of the American Bar Association, the Internet Sub-Committee of the ABA antitrust section, and the Canadian Bar Association.