Carrie Syme
Carrie brings decades of trial and intensive investigation experience to fight anticompetitive conduct and hold corporations accountable.
Carrie brings decades of trial and intensive investigation experience to fight anticompetitive conduct and hold corporations accountable.
Carrie Syme is a partner in DiCello Levitt’s Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice Group, bringing a formidable background in complex litigation, government enforcement, and trial advocacy. Recognized by Lawdragon among its 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers, Carrie draws on more than a decade of experience prosecuting high-stakes antitrust violations for the U.S. Department of Justice to represent plaintiffs harmed by price-fixing schemes, illegal market allocations, and other corporate misconduct.
At DiCello Levitt, Carrie plays a key role in antitrust matters involving ski pass pricing, streaming live pay television, and collusion among oil and gas companies. Among other matters, her work includes Goloja, et al. v. Vail Resorts Inc., et al., the first antitrust action challenging industry-wide conduct by dominant ski resort operators in North America, alleging that Vail Resorts and Alterra unlawfully inflated prices and suppressed competition through anticompetitive bundling practices tied to the Epic Pass and Ikon Pass. She also works on Heather Biddle, et al. v. The Walt Disney Company, where the firm serves as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in claims alleging anticompetitive conduct in the streaming live pay television market.
Carrie’s ability to take on powerful corporate defendants in complex, high-stakes litigation also makes her a valuable trial advocate beyond the antitrust arena. She is a member of the Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award-winning trial team in Kashef, et al. v. BNP Paribas, et al., a historic human rights case brought on behalf of Sudanese refugees who survived genocide and other mass atrocities. After nearly a decade of litigation and a six-week trial, the jury awarded three bellwether plaintiffs a combined $20.75 million and found that BNP Paribas aided and abetted the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. The verdict was the first by a U.S. jury to hold a major international bank civilly liable for materially supporting genocide and mass human rights violation.
Before joining DiCello Levitt, Carrie served for 13 years as a trial attorney in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, including more than two years as assistant chief of its New York office. She led both civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions involving price-fixing, bid-rigging, market allocation, no-poach agreements, and other anticompetitive conduct, bringing proven trial judgment to complex antitrust disputes from investigation through verdict.
Carrie played a pivotal role in some of the DOJ Antitrust Division’s largest and most complex cases, including United States v. Apple Inc., where she was a member of the winning trial team in the e-books price-fixing case, and the division’s landmark foreign currency exchange market prosecutions, where she led an investigation that secured the Antitrust Division’s first-ever guilty pleas and indictment in the FX market and resulted in a record-setting $2.7 billion in criminal fines. She also led major criminal enforcement matters involving anticompetitive employment practices and industrial products, including U.S. v. Patel, where she investigated an alleged long-running no-poach scheme among aerospace engineering companies and first-chaired the six-week trial.
Prior to her government service, Carrie spent more than a decade at a prominent full-service law firm, where she handled commercial and intellectual property litigation for a diverse range of clients.
Carrie has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a recommended lawyer in antitrust civil litigation and class actions, named to Women@’s “40 in Their 40s” list of Notable Women Competition Professionals, and honored by the DOJ with the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and multiple Antitrust Division Awards of Distinction. She has also been featured or quoted by Lawdragon, FTCWatch, New York Law Journal, Law360, CTV News, CBC News, GearJunkie, and Powder Magazine on antitrust enforcement and current competition matters.
