Sharis Pozen is the Regional Managing Partner, Americas, Chair Emeritus of the Global Antitrust Group, and a member of the firm's global Executive Leadership Group. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice. Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at General Electric (GE), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C.

She advises clients on a broad spectrum of antitrust issues related to mergers and acquisitions, litigation, criminal investigations, counseling and compliance across national and multinational industries, including technology and telecommunications, health care and life science, energy, financial services, transportation, agriculture, and consumer products.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Sharis was the Vice President of Global Competition Law and Policy at GE, where she was responsible for antitrust merger clearance on numerous significant, transformational mergers and acquisitions, steering global antitrust investigations to positive conclusions, antitrust compliance and other related issues.

While leading the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, Sharis led the successful efforts in blocking AT&T’s proposed US$39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, initiated the eBooks case against Apple and five publishers and oversaw the Department's successful investigation and prosecution of auto parts cartels, the largest criminal matter in the division’s history. She also represented the U.S. on competition issues before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Competition Network.

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