Ryan Swindall

Ryan Swindall is a Senior Associate based in Quinn Emanuel’s Atlanta office, where he specializes in complex commercial litigation and antitrust matters.  With a keen focus on achieving his clients’ objectives, Ryan is known for skillfully navigating clients through every stage of a dispute.

From the complaint on, Ryan represented plaintiffs LIV Golf, Inc. and professional golfers in an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, Inc. alleging monopolization in the markets for the services of professional golfers and the promotion of elite professional golf events, and an agreement to eliminate competition in those markets.

Ryan has represented clients in civil and criminal antitrust investigations, and several multi-district antitrust litigations with putative classes seeking billions of dollars.  These cases involve a range of allegedly anticompetitive conduct, such as market allocation, price fixing, wage fixing, and bid rigging.

Ryan also co-authored a chapter of a forthcoming handbook published by the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section.  This handbook intricately addresses application of the Rule of Reason, a core principle of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (the foundation of American antitrust law).

Beyond antitrust, Ryan has consistently demonstrated his ability to represent both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes cases.  Ryan has represented plaintiffs and defendants in matters such as an action against Churchill Downs seeking an injunction permitting entry of his client’s horses into the Kentucky Derby, a multi-billion dollar dispute involving the construction of two nuclear units at an electric generating plant, a lawsuit against the seller of a company which allegedly fraudulently inflated its revenue by tens of millions of dollars, and an action against a private equity fund that failed to pay millions of dollars in incentive payments to an executive of one of the fund’s portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Ryan clerked for the Honorable Lisa Godbey Wood, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Georgia. And he argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.