Holden Brooks Bio

Holden Brooks is a partner and co-leader of the firm’s Antitrust & Trade Regulation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on mergers, complex litigation, civil and criminal enforcement, and counseling across several industries, with significant experience in the healthcare sector. With a reputation for practical advice and a clear communication style, Holden regularly counsels clients on a variety of antitrust issues, including the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) merger review process, M&A strategic considerations, compliance strategies, and litigation. She regularly represents clients in both criminal and civil investigations with the FTC, U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, state attorneys general as well as class action, non‐class action, and merger challenge litigation matters in state, federal, and administrative courts. She has extensive experience in the transaction space and is uniquely suited to advise healthcare clients in connection with transactional and other growth‐related strategic planning and due diligence, as well as strategies to identify and mitigate antitrust risk in collaborations and joint ventures. She has also designed and implemented numerous antitrust compliance programs for healthcare and other clients and is an effective compliance speaker at all levels, from the C-suite to field employees encountering antitrust for the first time. Holden also has extensive experience in the Private Equity space, providing results-oriented HSR counseling to clients during mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Holden practiced antitrust law for national law firms and was a law clerk to the Honorable Peter J. Messitte of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.