Fourth Annual Chicago Forum on International ... - Mayer Brown

• Ph.D., Economics, Rice University (1982)
• J.D., George Mason University School of Law (1991)
Bar Admittance
• District of Columbia
• Virginia
CPA Certification
• Virginia
FRANCESCA RICHMOND is an English qualified commercial litigator whose practice
has an emphasis on public law and antitrust litigation. She provides strategic advice on
contentious matters across a range of industries including media and advertising,
telecoms, gambling, alcohol, food, tobacco and health and safety regulation.
Francesca recently completed a twelve month secondment with Baker & McKenzie’s
Antitrust Litigation team in <strong>Chicago</strong> and has acted on a number of antitrust litigation
matters in England and Wales. She led the successful defence of Trade Stomil,one of
five defendants to an English High Court follow-on action for damages by tire
manufacturers in respect of the Butadienne Rubber cartel. She also advised a major
European medical devices manufacturer on contentious competition litigation strategy
around securing supply from a dominant upstream manufacturer.
Francesca is an editor of the Baker & McKenzie Global Guide to Competition Litigation
and writes regularly on antitrust litigation (most recently for the Competition Law Journal
on Pursuing Effective Remedies in Private Competition Actions). She founded the
Competition Litigation Network, which hosts quarterly networking events for antitrust
litigators, in 2009. Francesca is also a member of the Law Society for England and
Wales and the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association. She is
committed to pro bono work and has appeared before the Supreme Court on behalf of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on two occasions.
JASON STAPLES is Senior Counsel with Abbott’s Legal Regulatory and Compliance
division. Mr. Staples joined Abbott in 2010 to assume leadership of the international
practice group supporting global clinical development. He was instrumental in
expanding the scope of the team’s expertise beyond proprietary pharmaceuticals to all
of Abbott’s medical device, diagnostics, and nutrition businesses. Prior to joining
Abbott, he served for several years as legal counsel for a CRO (now INC Research)
providing management and consulting services for the global biopharmaceutical
industry. He specializes in areas of international law and regulatory compliance
associated with all aspects of clinical research including related intellectual property,
anti-corruption and privacy law concerns. Mr. Staples is a graduate of Boston
University and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
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