Meegan Hollywood
Partner
Meegan Hollywood has over a decade of antitrust experience prosecuting actions involving price fixing, unlawful monopolization and other anticompetitive practices on behalf of plaintiffs.
She previously litigated the In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation involving a class of direct purchasers who recovered over $1.2 billion in settlements for an alleged global conspiracy in the market for airfreight services. Meegan currently serves on the court-appointed plaintiffs’ steering committee in In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation representing a proposed class of purchasers of broadcast television spot advertising against defendants that are alleged to have engaged in a scheme to artificially inflate prices in violation of federal antitrust law. Additionally, she is currently litigating the In re Replacement Passenger Vehicle Tires Antitrust Litigation on behalf of a proposed class of direct purchaser plaintiffs who allege that the defendant tire manufacturers engaged in a global price-fixing conspiracy to raise the price of replacement tires.
Meegan is an advisory board member of the American Antitrust Institute and co-chair of the Class Action and Private Litigation Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section. She works with the pro bono organization Kids in Need of Defense to provide pro bono assistance to unaccompanied refugee children seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile status in the United States. Meegan is also a member of the board of directors for Hudson River Community Sailing in New York.
- In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation. Meegan has helped secure over $1.2 billion in settlements for an alleged global conspiracy to fix surcharges for air cargo shipping services. Defendants in the decade-long litigation included many of the world’s largest airlines.
- In re Polyurethane Foam Antitrust Litigation. Over $433 million in settlements regarding an alleged conspiracy to unlawfully fix the prices of polyurethane foam in the United States.
- In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation. Meegan serves on the court-appointed plaintiffs’ steering committee representing a proposed class of purchasers of broadcast television spot advertising against defendants who are alleged to have engaged in a scheme to artificially inflate prices in violation of federal antitrust To date, plaintiffs have reached $48 million in settlements.
- In re Replacement Passenger Vehicle Tires Antitrust Litigation. Meegan is currently litigating on behalf of a proposed class of direct purchaser plaintiffs who allege that the defendant tire manufacturers engaged in a global price-fixing conspiracy to raise the price of replacement tires.
- Meegan represented one of the world’s largest energy companies in connection with its antitrust claims against defendant freight railroads for allegedly conspiring to increase revenue by imposing nonnegotiable fuel surcharges on rail shipments.
Bar Admissions
New York
District of Columbia
Eastern District of New York
Southern District of New York
Education
Villanova Law School, J.D., cum laude (2007); Managing Editor of Research and Writing, Villanova Law Review
State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A. — political science, cum laude (2004)
Benchmark Litigation: Future Star (2022-2024)
Chambers USA, Antitrust — Mainly Plaintiff, New York (2024)
Chambers USA, Antitrust — Mainly Plaintiff, New York, Up and Coming Attorney (2022-2023)
Bloomberg Law, They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40 (2022)
Crain’s New York Business, Notable Diverse Leader in Law (2022)
Super Lawyers, New York Super Lawyer (2022-2024)
Crain’s New York Business, Notable Woman in Law (2021)
New York Law Journal, Rising Star (2021)
The National Law Journal, Rising Star of the Plaintiffs Bar (2021)
Global Competition Review, 40 Under 40 List (2020)
Law360, Competition Editorial Advisory Board (2020)
American Bar Association, On the Rise: Top 40 Young Lawyer (2018)
Global Competition Review, Lawyer of the Year Under 40 Finalist (2018) Profiles in Diversity Journal, Woman Worth Watching (2018)
Super Lawyers, New York Rising Star (2015-2018)
Global Investigations Review, Woman in Investigations (2015)
American Antitrust Institute, Antitrust Enforcement Award Finalist and Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer Finalist (2014)
Media Mentions
“Law360’s 2020 competition editorial advisory board members,” Law360 (May 27, 2020)
“Attorneys want $100M in air cargo antitrust case,” Law360 (Aug. 19, 2016)
“Why the Justice Department won’t go after Amazon even though Paul Krugman thinks it’s hurting America,” Business Insider (Oct. 20, 2014)
“Air cargo plaintiffs on the verge of class certification,” Global Competition Review (Oct. 16, 2014)
Speeches & Events
“Eureka! Foreign evidence in US antitrust litigation,” American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section spring meeting webinar (March 25, 2021)
“Health care antitrust under President Biden,” Robins Kaplan LLP webinar (March 9, 2021)
“The economics of pricing conduct” panel, American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section webinar (Jan. 13, 2021)
“Franchising agreements and the no-poach approach,” American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section (March 13, 2020)
“New frontiers in antitrust,” American Bar Association, Section of Litigation & Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division CLE Conference (May 1, 2019)
“Why antitrust,” American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section (Feb. 25, 2019)
“Becoming an antitrust lawyer,” New York State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section (March 10, 2016)
“Antitrust and competition,” New York State Bar Association Young Lawyers Section (Jan. 30, 2015)
Professional Associations
American Antitrust Institute
(Advisory Board)
American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section
New York State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section
Other Service
Hudson River Community Sailing
(Board of Directors, 2022-2024)
“All is not lost: Personal jurisdiction in a post-BMS world,” (with Jonathan Edelman), Antitrust Magazine (fall 2023)
“Big data in the wake of Covid-19 — a conundrum for enforcers,” (with Adam Mendel), Bloomberg Law (June 17, 2020)
“Did antitrust enforcers allow for creation of competitive ecosystem now drawing their ire?,” (with Adam Mendel), Bloomberg Law (March 31, 2020)
“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: Can making ACPERA restitution conditional help fill a gap in the law?,” (with David Rochelson), Competition Policy International (June 2019)
“No-poachers find themselves in hot water,” (with Kellie Lerner), Bloomberg Law (Aug. 29, 2018)
“Between a rock and a hard place: Communicating with absent class members,” (with Noelle Forde), Antitrust Magazine (fall 2017)
“Amazon — the 1st illegal monopsony?,” Law360 (Sept. 2, 2014)
“Tips for the antitrust lawyer taking depositions abroad,” Law360 (July 3, 2013)
