Overview
Benjamin Dryden is a partner and antitrust lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He focuses his practice on antitrust issues arising from mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence and pre-closing counseling, representing clients in “second request” investigations before the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, and preparing Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filings. He also provides a full range of antitrust compliance and risk management services, with a particular focus on antitrust issues relating to labor and employment. Benjamin is a member of the firm’s Health Care Industry Team, and a member of the firm’s Antitrust, Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Distribution & Franchise, eDiscovery & Data Management, and Labor & Employment Practices.
Benjamin also maintains a broad practice representing businesses in complex civil litigation. He has litigated antitrust, constitutional law, breach-of-contract and regulatory disputes in federal and state courts across the country.
Recognition
- Recipient, Washington Super Lawyers® Rising Stars list (2014-2019)
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 2008)
- Articles Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
- Wharton School (Certificate in Business and Public Policy 2008)
- University of Michigan (B.A., 2004)
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Publications & Presentations
- Author, “Antitrust Counseling in the Pandemic Economy: Six Trends to Watch,” The Antitrust Counselor, Issue 14.3 (June 2020)
- Co-presenter, “Antitrust Update” for the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s Corporate Counseling Committee (February 24, 2020)
- Speaker, “The Case for Artificial Intelligence in a Privacy-Conscious World,” PREX, Chicago (2019)
- Co-author, “The General Counsel's Cheat Sheet to the Hart-Scott-Roding Act,” The M&A Journal Volume 17, Number 9 (2017)
- Webinar, “Antitrust Issues in Labor & Employment” (2017)
- Co-author, “Privacy Fixing and Predatory Privacy The Intersection of Big Data, Privacy Policies and Antitrust,” CPI Antitrust Chronicle (2017)
- Co-author, “The Antitrust Laws and Big Data,” Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide (2014)
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and D.C. Circuits