February 2022 Los Angeles, CA – Kesselman Brantly Stockinger LLP is pleased to announce that Abiel Garcia has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Garcia brings with him extensive antitrust experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, oil and gas, and tech. Beyond his breadth of antitrust experience, Mr. Garcia brings additional expertise in conducting government and internal investigations, with a particular focus on cross border matters in Mexico, Honduras, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Caribbean.
Mr. Garcia was formerly a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California Attorney General’s Office. In that position, he handled the California-specific issues in the F.T.C. v. Sysco/US Foods merger investigation and preliminary injunction hearing. He also worked on a variety of healthcare conduct investigations that included a diverse array of issues such as hospital contracting practices, physician-hospital collaborations, FDA regulatory pathways, reverse payments, product hopping, REMS abuse, and many others.
Mr. Garcia joins the firm from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP where his practice focused on a variety of antitrust matters as well as multiple white-collar investigations in South America. While at Gibson Dunn, Mr. Garcia handled multiple internal investigations that ended in self-reporting to various government entities while also managing various stages of litigation in price-fixing and other conduct cases, as well as complex breach of contract cases. Additionally, Mr. Garcia advised clients on multiple potential mergers and helped obtain government clearance for various deals.