Cliff Aronson is the North American Practice Leader Antitrust/Competition at Skadden Arps in New York. He has been practicing antitrust his entire career, focusing mostly on complex mergers & acquisitions. He has been actively involved in various aspects of Firm management at Skadden. Professor Aronson, who is listed in the top tier in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, also has been included repeatedly in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal: Competition. Law360 selected Professor Aronson as one of its “Competition MVPs” in 2012. Professor Aronson was an adjunct at the Wharton School (The Law of Marketing and Antitrust) and currently teaches in their executive education program on mergers & acquisitions. He graduated from Georgetown Law in 1980 and received a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, where he studied Finance and Multinational Enterprise.
