Nathaniel C. Giddings

Partner
Washington, DC

OVERVIEW

Nathaniel’s practice focuses on antitrust, consumer protection, financial services, and e-discovery. Nathaniel has litigated cases from inception through trial and appeal, and his work has contributed to the recovery of billions of dollars in compensation for the firm’s clients. Nathaniel is particularly well-versed in e-discovery issues and is an active member of The Sedona Conference’s Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production.

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Nathaniel’s clients include businesses alleging antitrust violations in the financial, pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural markets; consumers alleging state and constitutional law violations by a private toll road operator; recording artists alleging underpayment of music royalties by their record labels; and local governments challenging the constitutionality of a federal law. Nathaniel has also defended corporate officers in commercial disputes.

- In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation – Nathaniel represents a putative class of direct purchasers of broadcast television advertising. The class alleges that television broadcast station owners exchanged competitively sensitive information and fixed prices for broadcast television advertising in certain designated market areas in the United States, causing class members to pay higher prices for their advertisements.
- In re Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation – Nathaniel represents a class of direct (over-the-counter) purchasers of certain financial instruments linked to LIBOR. The class alleges that the banks setting this rate conspired with one another to suppress the LIBOR during the global financial crisis, which resulted in class members receiving less money on their investments.
- In re Disposable Contact Lens Antitrust Litigation – Nathaniel represents classes of consumers who purchased certain disposable contact lenses. The classes allege that the four leading contact lens manufacturers conspired among themselves and others to adopt, implement, and enforce resale price maintenance policies on these contact lenses, and as a result, that these contact lens wearers paid higher prices for their contact lenses.
- In re Foreign Exchange Benchmarks Rates Antitrust Litigation – Nathaniel represented market participants in the foreign exchange market against international banks alleged to have fixed the price of foreign exchange instruments.
- Niewinski v. State Farm Insurance – Nathaniel represents a class of purchasers of certain universal life insurance policies sold by State Farm. The class alleges that State Farm improperly computed its cost of insurance rates on these policies, causing the cash values of class members’ policies to be diminished.
- MTB Investment Partners, LP v. Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. – Nathaniel represented sellers of HearUSA stock who alleged that the defendant artificially depressed the price of the stock in order to acquire the company at below market price.
- Brown v. Transurban USA, Inc. – Nathaniel represented users of high-occupancy tolls lanes (so-called “HOT lanes”) in Virginia that were assessed significant fines without being provided with adequate notice from the private toll road operator.
- Nathaniel is a member of The Sedona Conference, Working Group 1 (Electronic Document Retention and Production)

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The 2024 Sedona Conference Working Group 1, Mid-Year Meeting

Georgetown Advanced E-Discovery Institute

Fordham Competition Law Institute Antitrust Workshops

Webinar on The Sedona Conference Commentary on the Effective Use of Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) Orders

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