Logan M. Breed | Washington, D.C. | Hogan Lovells

Logan M. Breed

Partner Global Regulatory

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Breed Logan

Logan M. Breed
Breed Logan
  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Credentials
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quote mark

Logan is a fantastic and highly experienced attorney who steers things in a better direction.

Chambers USA 2026

Logan Breed is the global co-head of the Hogan Lovells Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice. He has handled many of the most cutting-edge antitrust reviews of mergers and acquisitions of the past 20 years, as well as numerous non-merger conduct investigations and antitrust litigation matters. He has particular experience with issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law.

Logan's broad industry experience includes computer software and hardware, e-commerce, telecommunications, media and entertainment, consumer products, and defense. He also counsels clients on a wide variety of issues, including joint ventures and other strategic alliances between competitors, antitrust compliance, pricing, distribution, and distributor and dealer relations, and consumer protection matters.

Logan is widely recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer. The National Law Journal recognized Logan as a "trailblazer" in the field of antitrust law, while Washingtonian Magazine named him one of the top antitrust lawyers in Washington, D.C. Global Competition Review named Logan a finalist for global "Lawyer of the Year" in 2023 and "Dealmaker of the Year" in 2022, and has twice named him a finalist for its global "40 under 40" recognition. Logan is ranked in Chambers USA and Lexology for antitrust.

Logan is an authority in the antitrust bar, serving in the leadership of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and the International Bar Association Antitrust Committee. He speaks regularly around the world on antitrust issues and has published a number of articles on antitrust and other topics. His published articles have appeared in the Antitrust Law Journal, Antitrust Magazine, Mergermarket, the National Law Journal, various newsletters of the ABA section of Antitrust Law, the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, and the Virginia Journal of International Law.

quote mark

Logan is an absolute pleasure to work with and he has deep expertise. He is very pragmatic and commercially aware.

Chambers USA 2025

Representative experience

Representing Transocean in its all‑stock acquisition of Valaris Limited.

Representing Texas Instruments in its acquisition of Silicon Labs.

Represented Columbus McKinnon in its acquisition of Kito Crosby.

Represented IBM in its acquisitions of Confluent Inc. (2026), HashiCorp (2025), and RedHat (2019).

Advised Korean Air Lines on obtaining antitrust immunity for its expanded joint venture with Delta Air Lines.

Represented ASSA ABLOY in its acquisition of the HHI business from Spectrum Brands.

Represented Within Unlimited in its acquisition by Meta Platforms Inc.

Represented Kustomer in its acquisition by Facebook Inc.

Represented Intel in its acquisition of Moovit.

Represented Endemol Shine in its acquisition by Banijay Group.

Represented Marvell in its acquisition of Cavium.

Represented SABMiller in its acquisition by AB Inbev.

Represented Aeromexico in its joint-venture alliance agreement with Delta Air Lines.

Represented IBM in the sale of its Microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries (2015), and in the sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo (2014).

Represented ARRIS in its acquisition of Pace plc (2015), and in the acquisition of the Motorola Home business from Google (2013).

Represented Google in Federal Trade Commission investigation regarding in-app purchases.

Represented Waze in its acquisition by Google.

Represented Tumblr in its acquisition by Yahoo!.

Represented Ariba in its acquisition by SAP.

Represented Research In Motion as a member of a consortium including Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, and a leading global technology company in the acquisition of patents from Nortel.

Represented Verizon in acquiring 122 Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licenses from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks and creating joint marketing/development agreements.

Represented H&R Block and Second Story Software in merger litigation against the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

Represented ITA Software in its acquisition by Google.

Represented Alberto-Culver in its acquisition by Unilever.

Represented IBM in the Department of Justice's industry-wide investigation regarding non-solicitation arrangements between technology companies.

Represented Amcor Ltd. in its acquisition of Alcan Packaging assets from Rio Tinto.

Represented AdMob in its acquisition by Google.

Represented McCormick & Co. in its acquisition of Lawry's.

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Order of the Coif, 2002
  • B.A., University of Virginia, with distinction, 1999
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia
Memberships
  • Co-Chair, Technology Committee, Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association
  • Merger Working Group, Antitrust Section of the International Bar Association

Recognition

Antitrust (District of Columbia), Band 2

Chambers USA

2015-2026
Competition: Thought Leader

Who's Who Legal/Lexology

2018-2026
Finalist, Lawyer of the Year (Global)

Global Competition Review

2023
Finalist, Dealmaker of the Year (Global)

Global Competition Review

2022
Acritas Star

Acritas Stars Independently Rated Lawyers

2018-2020
Antitrust: Merger Control

Legal 500 US

2015-2020
Competition/Antitrust

Legal 500 EMEA

2019
Competition: Future Leaders

Who's Who Legal

2017
40 Under 40, Finalist

Global Competition Review

2015
Antitrust (District of Columbia), Up and Coming

Chambers USA

2013-2014
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts: Antitrust

Legal 500 US

2013-2014
Antitrust, Top Lawyers

Washingtonian Magazine

2013
40 Under 40, Finalist

Global Competition Review

2011