Michael Naughton is Senior Counsel in the Litigation Department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where his practice focuses on antitrust.  He counsels clients on pre-merger notification compliance, both domestically under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act and internationally.  He also represents clients in government investigations and reviews of mergers and acquisitions, and in government and private antitrust litigation, and counsels clients on the antitrust implications of their business activities.  Mr. Naughton brings to his practice the benefit of his doctorate in economics, along with his extensive prior academic and consulting experience in antitrust economics and industrial organization. 

He is an editor of Antitrust Magazine, and is the author of several articles, including “Gun-Jumping and Premerger Information Exchange:  Counseling the Harder Questions” and “Buyer Power Under Attack: Recent Trends in Monopsony Cases”, in the Summer 2006 and 2004 issues of Antitrust Magazine, respectively “The Antitrust Risks of Unilateral Conduct in Standard Setting” in the Fall 2004 issue of Antitrust Bulletin.

Mr. Naughton received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Vermont, a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College and a JD, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and was editor-in-chief of the NYU Environmental Law Journal.  From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Naughton was as an Associate Professor of Economics at San Diego State University.

Honors/Associations

•	The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
•	American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law

Publications

•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	Federal Trade Commission Makes Inquiries Into Interlocking Boards
•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	Final Rules Detailing Merger Filing Thresholds for New Competition Law In China Issued August 4, 2008
•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	DOJ Announces Reforms to Merger Review Process - January 18, 2007
•	Gun-Jumping and Premerger Information Exchange: Counseling the Harder Questions
•	Revised HSR Act Thresholds
•	Buyer Power Under Attack:  Recent Trends in Monopsony Cases, ANTITRUST, Summer 2004, at 81.
•	The Antitrust Risks of Unilateral Conduct in Standard Setting, in the Light of the FTC's Case Against Rambus, 49 ANTITRUST BULL. 69 (with R. Wolfram) (2004).
•	Opinion:  The Effects of the Empagran Decision on the Ability of Foreign Plaintiffs to Bring Private Actions in the U.S., PLC Global Counsel, Sept. 2004, at 45.

Admissions

•	New Jersey 1996
•	New York 1995
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 2003
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1995

Education

•	New York University School of Law, 1994 J.D. Magna cum laude; Editor-in-Chief (1993-1994) and Member (1992-1993) New York University Environmental Law Journal
•	Boston College, 1984 Ph.D. in Economics
•	University of Vermont, 1977 B.A.