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Rami Abdallah E. Rashmawi
Rami Abdallah E. Rashmawi
Associate — Complex Commercial Litigation
E: rrashmawi@velaw.com T: +1.202.639.6757
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Associate — Complex Commercial Litigation

Rami Abdallah E. Rashmawi

Rami Abdallah E. Rashmawi
Washington, D.C.
T: +1.202.639.6757
F: +1.202.879.8827

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037

E: rrashmawi@velaw.com
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Rami Abdallah E. Rashmawi

Rami represents clients in antitrust matters, with an emphasis on government investigations, antitrust merger review, competition counseling, and civil litigation. Rami has handled antitrust investigations for major transactions across a variety of sectors including technology, energy, infrastructure, and transportation, and has represented third-parties in merger proceedings in the United States and abroad. Rami actively represents clients in civil conduct investigations across the globe, including in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, as well as private civil litigations in the United States. Rami also provides counseling to clients on cutting edge issues relating to digital platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

Rami also maintains an active pro bono practice with a focus on immigration impact litigation and direct client representation.

The following is a list of representative matters in which Rami has assisted..

Experience Highlights

  • Represents leading US technology company in domestic and foreign conduct investigations by competition regulators

  • Represents leading US technology company as a third party in domestic and foreign merger investigations and litigation

  • Counsels leading US technology company on competition related issues of potential acquisitions, interoperability, artificial intelligence, ecosystems, and emerging technology

  • Google as a third-party witness in the FTC’s investigation and federal litigation challenging Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.

  • Alphabet-owned Intrinsic in its acquisition of AI/robotic intelligence firm Vicarious

  • Chord Energy in its $11 billion combination with Enerplus Corporation

  • Crestwood Equity Partners in the $7.1 billion sale of the company to Energy Transfer in an all-equity transaction

  • Grayson Mill Holdings II, LLC and Grayson Mill Holdings III, LLC in the $5 billion sale to Devon Energy

  • Earthstone Energy in its $4.5 billion sale to Permian Resources

  • Energy Transfer LP in the $3.25 billion acquisition of WTG Midstream Holdings from affiliates of Stonepeak, the Davis Estate and Diamondback Energy, Inc.

  • CSI Compressco in its $854 million sale to Kodiak Gas Services

  • Paloma Partners IV in its sale of assets to Mach Natural Resources for $815 million

  • Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. in its $450 million acquisition of all of Hi Crush’s Permian Basin proppant production assets and North American logistics operations

  • Representing national property management companies in connection with a series of consolidated class actions alleging the existence of a conspiracy to increase or stabilize the price of apartments using a common algorithm

  • Representing one of largest hospital systems in the United States in connection with claims that all insurance companies in the United States used a single algorithm to “reprice” out-of-network claims

  • Representing a class of asylum seekers and migrant services providers in litigation against the United States federal government regarding treatment of noncitizens at the southern US border

  • Represented the largest New York bus company in contract and unfair trade practices litigation against Greyhound

Credentials

  • Washington and Lee University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2021 (Order of the Coif and Senior Articles Editor, Washington & Lee Law Review)
  • University of California, Davis, B.A., Cognitive Science, 2018
  • Young Lawyer Representative – American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, Media and Technology Committee
  • Young Lawyer Representative – American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, AI Task Force
  • District of Columbia
  • California
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • “No Injury? No Class: Proof of Injury in Federal Antitrust Class Actions post-Wal-Mart,” 77 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1375, 2020 (author)

News & Insights

Event
Rami Rashmawi Moderating ABA Antitrust Law Section Panel on Emerging Policy and Legal Issues at the Intersection of AI & Privacy
Regulatory Roundup
December 16, 2024
Insight
FTC and DOJ Withdraw Longstanding Competitor Collaborations Guidance

V&E Antirust Update

Regulatory Roundup
December 13, 2024
Deals & Cases
Gravity Agrees to Sell Water Midstream Business to Delek Logistics
December 13, 2024
Insight
FTC Finalizes Major Overhaul and Expansion of HSR Act Reporting Requirements

V&E Antitrust Update

Managing the Modern WorkplaceRegulatory Roundup
October 16, 2024