Eric Fanchiang

Counsel

Counsel

Orange County
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Eric Fanchiang is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Group. His practice focuses primarily on antitrust litigation for both defendants and plaintiffs and on government investigations. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, transportation, and digital media. Eric represents his clients on a wide range of antitrust issues, including standard setting, trade association policies, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and price fixing.

While in law school, Eric was a staff editor and a lead notes editor of the UC Irvine Law Review and a research assistant to Professor Kenneth Simons, where he researched issues related to the drafting of the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons.

Eric is active in the local bar, serving as a director for the Orange County Asian American Bar Association and is a current member of the Governing Council of the University of California, Irvine School of Law Alumni Association. He was recently named a 2020 Distinguished Alumnus by the University of California, Irvine Alumni Association.

Career & Education

University of California, Irvine, B.S., biological sciences, 2012
University of California, Irvine School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2017
- University of California, Irvine, B.S., biological sciences, 2012
- University of California, Irvine School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2017
California
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Professional Activities and Memberships

Director, Orange County Asian American Bar Association

Member, Governing Council of the University of California, Irvine School of Law Alumni Association
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Director, Orange County Asian American Bar Association
- Member, Governing Council of the University of California, Irvine School of Law Alumni Association

Eric's Insights

Publication | December 2023

"Chapter 19: Common Law Business Torts," The December 2023 Edition of the California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Treatise

Firm News | 10 min read | 01.09.23
Crowell & Moring Elects 16 New Partners, Promotes Five to Senior Counsel, and 25 to Counsel
Publication | 04.01.22
Chapter 12: Antitrust and Intellectual Property Licensing, Wolters Kluwer Licensing Update 2022
Publication | 03.03.22
Intellectual Property & Antitrust

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Representative Matters

Representing a major pharmaceuticals distributor as a defendant in a multi-district class action antitrust litigation alleging conspiracy to fix pharmaceutical drug prices by certain manufacturers.
Representing a Class I railroad as a defendant in a multi-district antitrust litigation alleging conspiracy to fix fuel surcharge prices.
Representing various third parties in antitrust investigations and litigations related to digital markets.
Representing a major technology and telecommunications company in efforts to recover overcharges paid on price-fixed capacitors.
Representing a transportation technology company as a plaintiff in litigation involving antitrust claims related to standard setting, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and exclusive dealing for emerging safety technology.
Team member representing AT&T during the regulatory investigation, litigation, and appeal brought by the U.S. Department of Justice to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.