Shawn R. Johnson
Overview
Shawn Johnson is a partner and co-chair of Crowell & Moring's Antitrust and Competition Group and is located in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
Career & Education
- Boston College, B.A., economics and political science
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., Managing Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review
- District of Columbia
- Virginia (Inactive)
Shawn's Insights
Firm News | 8 min read | 08.15.24
Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
Client Alert | 11 min read | 06.20.24
Crowell & Moring and King’s College London 6th Annual Competition Law Conference
Representative Matters
Representative Merger Experience
- Representing United Technologies in connection with its $135 billion merger with The Raytheon Company, which The Deal named its 2020 "Deal of the Year," its $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins, and its $16.5 billion acquisition of Goodrich.
- Representing Sikorsky Aircraft Company in connection with its $9 billion sale to Lockheed Martin.
- Representing Humana in connection with its proposed $37 billion merger with Aetna, as well as its acquisitions of Arcadian Health, Curo Health Services, and the Kindred at Home division of Kindred Healthcare.
- Representing Coventry Health Care in connection with its $5.7 billion sale to Aetna.
- Representing Pratt & Whitney in connection with the $550 million sale of its Rocketdyne business unit to GenCorp.
- Representing Alcoa in connection with its $2.85 billion acquisition of Firth Rixson and its $1.5 billion acquisition of RTI International Metals.
- Representing AT&T (and previously SBC) in connection with numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of AT&T Wireless, AT&T Corp., BellSouth, DirecTV, and Time Warner.
- Representing DuPont in connection with its $6.3 billion acquisition of Danisco and the $4.9 billion divestiture of its automotive paints business to the Carlyle Group.
- Representing Clean Harbors in connection with its acquisitions of both Thermo Fluids and the industrial cleaning services division of Veolia North America.
- Representing Rio Tinto in connection with the $761 million sale of the Jacobs Ranch coal mine to Arch Coal, as well as the divestiture of its Alaskan gold and silver mining operations.
- Representing Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and J.P. Morgan in connection with the formation of FXSpotStream LLC.
- Representing Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch and UBS in the formation of ICE US Trust LLC.
- Representing Citadel Securities, GETCO, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS in their purchase of a significant equity interest in NYSE Liffe U.S.
- Several confidential transactions involving U.S. and foreign intelligence and defense contractors.
Representative Litigation Experience
- Representing a major metals manufacturer in connection with an investigation by the Department of Justice and various international competition authorities into alleged pricing fixing; closed without prosecution.
- Representing a major multinational corporation in connection with an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into potential monopolization and abuse of standard setting concerns; closed without prosecution.
- Representing a major multinational corporation in connection with an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into potential monopolization and exclusive dealing concerns; closed without prosecution.
- Representing an agricultural cooperative in connection with an investigation by the Department of Justice into alleged price fixing; closed without prosecution.
- Representing several clients in connection with internal antitrust investigations.
Shawn's Insights
Firm News | 8 min read | 08.15.24
Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
Client Alert | 11 min read | 06.20.24
Crowell & Moring and King’s College London 6th Annual Competition Law Conference
Insights
Antitrust in the Digital Age
|02.26.20
Crowell & Moring's Regulatory Forecast 2020
Antitrust — Healthcare Industry in the Spotlight
|01.19.16
Crowell & Moring's Regulatory Forecast 2016
Regulatory Forecast 2016: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year
|01.19.16
a Crowell & Moring LLP publication
Mergers & Acquisitions: Understanding the Antitrust Issues, Fourth Edition
|10.01.15
ABA Section of Antitrust Law
Regulatory Forecast 2015: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year
|01.31.15
a Crowell & Moring LLP publication
Antitrust Compliance: Perspectives and Resources for Corporate Counselors, Second Edition
|10.21.10
ABA Section of Antitrust Law
Back In The Cross Hairs: Consortium Deals Can Raise Competition Concerns
|09.02.09
The Deal Magazine
Shawn's Insights
Firm News | 8 min read | 08.15.24
Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
Client Alert | 11 min read | 06.20.24
Crowell & Moring and King’s College London 6th Annual Competition Law Conference