Juan A. Arteaga is an antitrust and white collar partner in Crowell & Moring’s New York office. He is a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he led and oversaw various high-profile civil and criminal investigations and litigation. His practice focuses primarily on advising companies, boards of directors, special committees, and executives on a broad range of civil and criminal antitrust matters, including litigation, merger reviews, and government and internal investigations. Juan also represents clients in a wide range of high-profile and complex regulatory investigations and commercial litigation, including securities litigation, shareholder derivative actions, class actions, and international arbitrations.
Juan has extensive experience representing Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions in high-stakes investigations and litigation, including AT&T, United Technologies Corp., JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS, RBS, Deutsche Bank, KKR, Blackstone, and MasterCard.
Juan has been recognized as a leading lawyer by numerous professional publications and associations, including the New York Law Journal (Distinguished Leaders and Rising Star Awards), Law360 (Rising Star Award), Hispanic National Bar Association (Top Lawyer Under 40 Award), and Ethisphere Institute (Attorneys Who Matter Award). He has also received various awards for his pro bono work and volunteers on the boards of Legal Outreach, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp., and Free the Slaves.
Juan received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served as a managing editor of the Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Archbishop Oscar Romero Scholarship. After law school, Juan served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Roger L. Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.