Joseph F. Tringali is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the Litigation Department, where he represents clients on general commercial litigation with an emphasis on competition matters.  He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in jury and bench trials and argued appeals in federal and state appellate courts in diverse areas, including antitrust, breach of contract, copyright infringement, false advertising, employment discrimination and civil rights.  Primarily, he has litigated antitrust actions for both plaintiffs and defendants and counsels clients under the Sherman, Clayton, Robinson-Patman and Hart-Scott-Rodino Acts, including cases alleging monopolization, price fixing, market and bid allocations and other restraints of trade, as well as price discrimination.  He has also obtained antitrust clearance for numerous merger transactions before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, various state antitrust enforcement agencies, and the European Commission, including representing Wyeth in its sale to Pfizer, Bowne in its proposed sale to R.R. Donnelly, Altivity Packaging in its acquisition by Graphic Packaging, Xerox in its acquisition of ACS, Pinnacle Foods in its acquisition of Bird’s Eye, Blackstone in its acquisition of Hilton Hotels, KeySpan in its acquisition by National Grid, and Kmart in its acquisition of Sears.  In addition, he represents Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in a civil antitrust action alleging collusion among private equity firms for large leveraged buyouts, Viacom in a putative consumer class action challenging the alleged bundling of cable programming services, and has recently represented MasterCard in antitrust actions brought against it by American Express and Discover, Weyerhaeuser in several monopolization cases, and JP Morgan Chase and Lehman Brothers in a lawsuit alleging price-fixing regarding the fee charged in certain IPOs.  He has been recognized in the antitrust field by the following publications:  Chambers USA, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal (Competition), and the Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers.

Mr. Tringali joined the Firm in 1983 and became a partner in 1989.  He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977 and his J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1980, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

Honors/Associations

•	Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Publications

•	DOJ and FTC Issue Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines
•	Proposed Modifications to HSR Reporting
•	The Supreme Court Finds NFL Licensing Activities Subject to Rule of Reason Antitrust Scrutiny
•	The Supreme Court Considers Whether the NFL is a "Single Entity" and thus Immune from Antitrust Scrutiny
•	The Heightened Pleading Standard of Twombly Applies to All Federal Civil Claims
•	Federal Trade Commission Makes Inquiries Into Interlocking Boards
•	China Blocks Foreign Acquisition of a Chinese Company in an Early Major Test of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law
•	The Supreme Court Considers the Applicability of the “Price-Squeeze” Theory of Illegal Monopolization
•	Antitrust Developments in the Media and Entertainment Industries (2009 Antitrust Review of the Americas)
•	Final Rules Detailing Merger Filing Thresholds for New Competition Law In China Issued August 4, 2008
•	Whole Foods/Wild Oats: D.C. Circuit Reverses and Remands on Motion to Preliminarily Enjoin Already Consummated Merger
•	The Department of Justice Gives Unconditional Approval to Proposed Merger of Sirius and XM
•	First U.K. Criminal Charges Are Brought Against Cartel Participants Following DOJ Plea Agreements in the U.S.
•	EU Commission Dawn Raids Companies for Alleged Gun-Jumping Violations
•	"Special Issues Affecting Private Equity in Antitrust," The International Comparative Legal Guide to Merger Control 2008
•	"Antitrust Developments in the Media and Entertainment Industries," Global Competition Review, The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2008
•	Antitrust Developments in the Media and Entertainment Industries
•	The European Court of First Instance Upholds the European Commission’s Finding that Microsoft Abused its Dominant Position
•	Supreme Court Holds That Minimum Resale Price Maintenance is Not a Per Se Violation of Antitrust Law
•	Supreme Court Rules that IPO Litigation is Immune from Antitrust Scrutiny
•	Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly: Raising the Bar for Pleadings by Antitrust Plaintiffs
•	DOJ Announces Reforms to Merger Review Process - January 18, 2007
•	The European Court of First Instance Annuls the European Commission’s Decision Approving the SonyBMG Joint Venture - July 18, 2006
•	Two Supreme Court Antitrust Decisions In Two Days - March 2, 2006
•	FTC Reforms to Merger Review Process - February 21, 2006
•	Final Rules to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for Formations of Unincorporated Entities and Acquisitions of "Non-Corporate Interests"
•	Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
•	Proposed Rules to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for Formations of Unincorporated Entities and Acquisitions of "Non-Corporate Interests"
•	Final Rules to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
•	Recent Antitrust Division and FTC Steps to Expedite the Review of Mergers and other Antitrust Investigations
•	Amendments and Proposed Rules to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
•	Amendments to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Notification Requirements
•	Hart-Scott-Rodino Reporting Requirements for Certain Acquisitions Involving Banking and Non-Banking Businesses
•	Revised Treatment of LLCs Under Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
•	New Treatment of LLCs Under Hart–Scott–Rodino Act
•	Note, Redemption Through Exemption:  Extending Unemployment Insurance to Sectarian Schools, 55 New York University Law Review, 242, 1980

Admissions

•	New York 1981
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1981
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1981
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit 1988
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit 1988
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit 1996
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit 2004
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit 2002
•	U.S. Supreme Court 1988

Education

•	New York University School of Law, 1980 J.D. New York University Law Review, Member, 1978-1980; Note and Comment Editor, 1979-1980
•	Wesleyan University, 1977 B.A. magna cum laude; With Honors in English