Greg Asciolla
Greg focuses on litigating complex antitrust class actions challenging monopolies, price fixing cartels, and other anticompetitive conduct.
Greg focuses on litigating complex antitrust class actions challenging monopolies, price fixing cartels, and other anticompetitive conduct.
Greg Asciolla is managing partner of DiCello Levitt’s New York office and chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice Group. A nationally recognized plaintiffs’ antitrust lawyer with almost three decades of experience, including as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Greg represents businesses, health and welfare funds, state attorneys general, and consumers in complex antitrust class actions and direct/opt-out actions. Named a Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology and recognized by Chambers USA as a leading plaintiffs’ competition lawyer, Greg focuses on cases involving price-fixing, monopolization, commodities manipulation, pay-for-delay agreements, market allocation, and other anticompetitive conduct, seeking economic justice for victims of antitrust violations.
Greg is known for building proprietary antitrust cases from the ground up, uncovering anticompetitive conduct, developing first-to-file investigations, and advancing claims that shape emerging areas of competition law.
Courts regularly appoint Greg to leadership positions in major antitrust class actions throughout the United States. In those roles, he has helped recover billions of dollars for clients and class members in cases involving financial instruments, pharmaceuticals, health care, technology, manufacturing, sports, consumer goods, heavy construction equipment, housing and real estate, and television. His leadership recently resulted in the following matters being successfully resolved: In re European Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation, which settled for $120 million; Borozny, et al. v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Division, et al., which settled for $60.5 million; In re Surescripts Antitrust Litigation, which settled for $49.7 million; Fusion Elite All Stars, et al. v. Varsity Brands LLC, et al., which settled for $43.5 million; In re Novartis and Par Antitrust Litigation, which settled for $30 million; In re Platinum and Palladium Antitrust Litigation, which settled for $20 million; and In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, which has settlements totaling $533 million to date.
Greg also serves in leadership roles in current antitrust matters across a wide range of markets, including In re Manufactured Home Lot Rents Antitrust Litigation, World Association of Icehockey Players Unions North America Division v. National Hockey League, Biddle v. The Walt Disney Company, In re Construction Equipment Antitrust Litigation, In re Respimat Pharmaceuticals Antitrust Litigation, and Jones v. Fanatics Inc., among others. He also represents the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Coleman v. RealPage Inc.
Greg is widely recognized for his leadership in high-profile antitrust litigation. Law360 has named him a Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar and an MVP of the Year in competition/antitrust litigation, while Lawdragon has recognized him among its Leading Global Litigators, Leading Lawyers in America, Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers, and other lists of leading litigators. He also has been named a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation, Distinguished Leader by the New York Law Journal, and Leading Partner by The Legal 500, among many other honors.
Greg is an active leader in the antitrust bar and in efforts to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession. He is a member of the Executive Committee and former officer of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section, an advisory board member of the American Antitrust Institute, past president of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws, and a board member of Public Justice. He is an annual invitee of the exclusive Cambridge Antitrust Forum and serves as the U.S. representative to the Cross Border Legal Network. Greg also co-chairs DiCello Levitt’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, serves as a vice chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Diverse Perspectives and Engagement Committee, formerly served on Law360’s Diversity & Inclusion Editorial Advisory Board, and regularly speaks on diversity in leadership appointments and the antitrust bar. Greg also has represented pro bono clients in matters involving the arts and immigration of LGBTQ+ individuals facing persecution.
