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Paramount Assembles Legal Team to Defend Warner Bros. Deal
Jeffrey Kessler will work alongside former federal prosecutors Makan Delrahim and David Gelfand. The big-name antitrust lawyer is known for taking on plaintiff-side antitrust work and won pivotal competition cases against the NCAA and Live Nation.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter’s source item, Paramount Assembles Legal Team to Defend Warner Bros. Deal, Jeffrey Kessler will work alongside former federal prosecutors Makan Delrahim and David Gelfand. The big-name antitrust lawyer is known for taking on plaintiff-side antitrust work and won pivotal competition cases against the NCAA and Live Nation.
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