Patrick McGahan

Scott & Scott

Patrick is a partner in Scott+Scott’s Connecticut and London offices and works closely with other members of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice in counseling corporate and institutional clients, evaluating potential claims, and developing strategies to recover losses caused by anticompetitive conduct. He specializes in antitrust and commodities litigation before United States and English courts. Patrick is a member of the Scott+Scott team acting as co-lead counsel on behalf of cattle ranchers and futures traders alleging a conspiracy amongst nation’s meatpackers to suppress fed cattle prices. He is also part of the Scott+Scott leadership teams acting as Court-appointed co-lead counsel in Klein, et al. v. Meta Platforms, alleging that Facebook monopolizes the social advertising market, and acts on behalf of dairy-farmers accusing Dairy Farmers of America of anticompetitive conduct in the Northeast. Prior to joining Scott+Scott, Mr. McGahan spent four years in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. During this time, he acted in many of the leading English competition damages cases, including National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc v. ABB Ltd. He also acted for numerous clients in competition law investigations, both internal investigations and those brought by the Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission, and other regulators.