Kent A. Gardiner
Overview
Kent Gardiner is the former chair of Crowell & Moring. Kent’s practice focuses on antitrust and other complex litigation, including class actions, antitrust/intellectual property cases, and multi-district litigation.
Career & Education
- Department of Justice: Antitrust Division
Trial Attorney, 1984–1987
- Department of Justice: Antitrust Division
- Binghamton University (State University of New York), B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, economics and English
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 1984
- District of Columbia
- New York
Kent's Insights
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.06.24
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2024
Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.01.23
Firm News | 7 min read | 08.18.22
Representative Matters
- Representing international airline in relation to government investigations and associated class action litigation involving alleged multi-billion dollar pricing and capacity collusion.
- Representing a major railroad in defense of MDL class action alleging multi-billion dollar conspiracy to fix fuel prices.
- Represented Humana in trial against U.S. DOJ relating to proposed Humana-Aetna merger.
- Tried antitrust/contract/tort defense case with $200 million in claimed damages; settled mid-trial for no damages and plaintiffs' payment of defense costs.
- Represented DuPont at trial involving misappropriation of over 100 trade secrets relating to DuPont’s Kevlar® fiber technology, in one of the largest trade secret misappropriation cases in the United States history; obtained record-setting damages award and assisted with U.S. DOJ’s successful prosecution of a large Korean conglomerate for the theft of DuPont’s core technology. Obtained summary judgment against antitrust counterclaims.
- Tried criminal antitrust case in marine construction industry; obtained dismissal at close of prosecutor's case.
- Represented a major agricultural company in successful defense of a connection with a DOJ criminal investigation.
- Represented a group of corporations in opt-out litigation against the largest global computer chip manufacturers, for their involvement in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry; obtained substantial recoveries.
- Represented a major chemicals manufacturer in global antitrust investigations and related class action litigations; obtained non-prosecution resolution.
- Represented a major metals manufacturer in DOJ and European Commission investigation; closed without prosecution.
- Represented a major construction company in international government contracts/antitrust investigation; closed without prosecution.
- Represented more than one hundred companies in recovering overcharges by suppliers involved in price-fixing conspiracies.
Kent's Insights
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.06.24
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2024
Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.01.23
Firm News | 7 min read | 08.18.22
Kent's Insights
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.06.24
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2024
Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23
Firm News | 9 min read | 06.01.23
Firm News | 7 min read | 08.18.22