Syme Brings Decades of Trial, Complex Investigation Experience to Partnership
NEW YORK – April 8, 2025 – Carrie Syme, a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, has joined DiCello Levitt’s nationally recognized Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice Group in New York as a partner. Syme has decades of experience in complex litigation, government enforcement, and trial advocacy.
“We are delighted to welcome Carrie back to private practice after her distinguished career prosecuting high-stakes antitrust violations with the DOJ,” said Greg Asciolla, chair of DiCello Levitt’s Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice Group and managing partner of the firm’s New York office. “She is a highly formidable litigator known for her tenacious advocacy for those harmed by corporate misconduct and collusion, and we look forward to working with her.”
“DiCello Levitt is regarded as a market leader in the private antitrust litigation space, and I’m excited to join the team as part of the next stage in my career and practice,” Syme said. “It was an honor and privilege to have served as a member of the DOJ and its New York Antitrust Division, and I’m excited to continue to hold corporations accountable now alongside the DiCello Levitt team.”
During her 13 years in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, including more than two years as Assistant Chief of its New York office, Syme led investigations and prosecutions involving price-fixing, bid-rigging, and market allocation conspiracies. She played a pivotal role in some of the division’s largest and most complex cases, including in United States v. Apple Inc. concerning the e-books market and a landmark series of criminal prosecutions of major banks and traders engaged in foreign currency exchange market manipulation.
Syme also played a critical role in the DOJ’s criminal enforcement efforts against anticompetitive employment practices, leading the investigation and prosecution of one of the first criminal no-poach cases, against executives of major aerospace industry companies.
Syme earned her JD from New York University School of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Yale University.
DiCello Levitt’s Antitrust and Competition Litigation Practice Group has litigated some of the largest antitrust class actions in the United States, often filing the first case, advancing novel theories, and creating new law. Firm attorneys are leaders in the antitrust field, including in various national and state antitrust organizations, and have garnered national and international recognition from publications such as Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500, Lawdragon, and Law360, including Band 1 top honors for the practice group from Chambers USA.
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