Chahira Solh

Overview

Chahira Solh serves as a trusted advisor on antitrust issues for a number of the country’s most recognizable companies, including in the auto, aviation, health care, and defense industries. Her practice focuses on all aspects of antitrust law, including litigation and government enforcement actions, joint venture analysis, merger control, and affirmative recovery opportunities. By approaching transactional and compliance issues with the eye of a litigator, Chahira is able to provide comprehensive legal and business advice that anticipates issues and mitigates future legal or business risks.

As a litigator, Chahira defends clients in civil antitrust litigation ranging from “no-poach” agreements, to allegations of exclusive dealing and tying, to minimum advertised price policies, to price fixing. Chahira also advises clients on affirmative recovery strategies that enable companies to recoup monies owed to them due to the illegal acts of competitors or from overcharges by the government. Chahira helps clients devise litigation strategies that advance and protect both their commercial and legal interests.

Clients also turn to Chahira to provide strategic counsel on a variety of antitrust matters, including merger clearance, joint ventures, trade association law, the Robinson-Patman Act, and distribution and vertical issues, including pricing policies.

Chahira is the Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s Management Board. She is active in many professional organizations, including serving on the board of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers - Orange County Chapter and the Public Law Center. She has been recognized as a "Southern California Super Lawyer - Rising Star" in Antitrust Litigation since 2009. Chahira was selected for the 2016 Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), a national organization comprised of the legal profession's top general counsels and managing partners, and continues to be involved in the LCLD Alumni community.

Chahira earned her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as managing editor of the Journal of International Human Rights. While in law school, Chahira was selected to perform several internships at the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Antitrust Bureau, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C., and at the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Protection Division in Chicago, Illinois. She received B.A.'s in both economics and history from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career & Education

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University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., economics and history, 2003
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D., 2006
- University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., economics and history, 2003
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D., 2006
California
- California
Arabic
French
- Arabic
- French

Chahira's Insights

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Representative Matters

Representing a health care company against a putative class alleging that the company entered into a “no-poach” agreement with another company to not recruit any of each other’s healthcare workers.
Representing an aerospace company against a putative class alleging that one of its divisions and certain outsourcing companies entered into an illegal “no-poach” agreement to not recruit each other’s engineers.
Representing a sheet wave company against claims of monopolization and collusion.
Represented a real estate brokerage in an antitrust litigation against a trade group.
Representing a global transportation company in connection with joint venture agreements requiring antitrust and other regulatory approvals in the United States as well as various jurisdictions in Central and South America.
Representing a large industrial manufacturing company in prosecuting monopolization claims based on exclusive dealing, tying, and false statements.
Successfully represented a Tier 1 automotive supplier to recovery overcharges caused by an international price fixing cartel.
Successfully represented a major U.S. automobile manufacturer as a plaintiff in the In re Vehicle Carrier Services Antitrust Litigation.
Won dismissal of federal antitrust claims on behalf of an international musical instrument manufacturer in a Multi-District class action involving minimum advertised price policies; affirmed by the Ninth Circuit.
Won dismissal of antitrust claims on behalf of a global telecommunications technology company in a case alleging subversion of a standard-setting process.
Successfully represented a major U.S. automobile manufacturer in litigation to recover overcharges for its purchases of polyurethane foam in the In re Polyurethane Foam Antitrust Litigation.
Defended a global chemical producer in a price-fixing case.
Prevailed at arbitration and obtained a judgment on behalf of a client group that purchased rubber chemicals in a price-fixing litigation to recover overcharges caused by an international price-fixing cartel.
Represented a client group that purchased electrical carbon products, in price-fixing litigation to recover overcharges caused by an international price-fixing cartel.
Defended AT&T in its acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
Defended Yamaha Corporation of America in the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into minimum advertised pricing for musical instruments.
Represented a chemical manufacturer in the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into standard setting policies and patent issues.