Hilary K. Ratway
Hilary Ratway joined the Firm in the summer of 2006 as an Associate, and she is a member of the Antitrust Practice Group.
Ms. Ratway is currently working on In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y.), in which a partial settlement of $85 million was reached with defendants Deutsche AG, Lufthansa Cargo AG, and Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. and In re OSB Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.), in which a class of direct purchasers was recently certified. Ms. Ratway also works on Boyd et al. v. AWB Limited (S.D.N.Y.), an antitrust and RICO class action brought on behalf of American wheat farmers. The wheat farmers allege that a AWB Limited, an Australian wheat exporter, bribed the Saddam Hussein regime under the United Nations Oil for Food Program in exchange for a monopoly in the Iraqi wheat market and the exclusion of American wheat from the Iraqi market. Other antitrust cases Ms. Ratway works on include: In re Air Transportation and Surcharge Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.), In re Publication Paper Antitrust Litigation (D. Conn.), and Behrend v. Comcast Corp. (E.D. Pa.).
In addition to representing victims of anticompetitive conduct, Ms. Ratway also represents Holocaust victims in a breach of contract case alleging certain German corporations failed to pay appropriate interest due on their payments to a reparations fund.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Ratway worked at The Furth Firm in San Francisco, California and Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran in Washington, D.C., where she gained substantial experience representing plaintiffs in antitrust and consumer fraud class actions. Among other cases, Ms. Ratway was involved in Schwab v. Philip Morris USA et al. (E.D.N.Y.), the largest class action ever certified, in which the plaintiffs allege a RICO conspiracy and fraud in connection with the marketing and sale of "light" cigarettes.
During law school, Ms. Ratway interned at the United States Supreme Court in the Office of Legal Counsel and for the Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ms. Ratway received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1996) and a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law (2000, cum laude).
Ms. Ratway is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.
Contact: hratway@cmht.com
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