Clifford Chance
Michael Van Arsdall is a partner in the firm's Antitrust Group. Michael's practice involves antitrust counseling on a wide variety of subjects, with particular focus on transactional antitrust matters such as mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. He has guided numerous complicated transactions through the U.S. and foreign antitrust/competition review process.
Michael has experience in some of the largest and most significant transactions in aerospace, telecommunications, consumer products, healthcare, and online advertising industries. Michael also regularly advises clients in connection with civil non-merger conduct investigations.
Michael has represented clients before the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Defense, and many state attorneys general.
- UScellular and TDS's proposed US$4.4 billion sale of wireless operations and select spectrum to T-Mobile.
- The Czechoslovak Group on is US$2.3bn acquisition of The Kinetic Group, being the sporting goods division of of Vista Outdoors Inc.
- General Electric on numerous, successful worldwide merger clearances, including the US$30 billion sale of GCAS to AerCap and US$20 billion sale of GE Healthcare’s life science business to Danaher.
- United Technologies’ US$30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins.
- AT&T's US$85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, Inc., and its US$67 billion acquisition of DIRECTV.
- Humana’s proposed US$37 billion merger with Aetna.
- Alcoa's US$2.85 billion acquisition of Firth Rixson and the US$1.5 billion acquisition of RTI International Metals.
- United Technologies US$16 billion acquisition of Goodrich Aerospace.
- Rio Tinto sale of Wyoming mining operation to Arch Minerals.
- Reed Elsevier's US$4.1 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint.
- Third party representations in multiple DOJ and FTC investigations of online advertising transactions.
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Washington D.C.
- +12029125072
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- Speaks English and French
- Practice area Antitrust, EU & trade, M&A corporate
Career and qualifications
- University of Rhode Island, 1992, Political Science and French, B.A.
- Catholic University School of Law, 1999, J.D.
- Admitted as an attorney-at-law, U.S. Fourth Circuit of Appeals
- Admitted as an attorney-at-law in Virginia in 2000
- Admitted as an attorney-at-law in Washington, D.C. in 2001