Kovel added, "Kirby McInerney looks forward to bringing these experiences together to represent whistleblowers under the new DOJ Antitrust Whistleblower Program." Kirby McInerney's extensive antitrust experience prosecuting cases against corporations for violations of the full breadth of antitrust laws: illegal price fixing, unlawful monopolization, monopoly leveraging, illegal tying arrangements, illegal mergers or acquisitions, unfair competition, exclusive dealing, and refusals to deal. In the whistleblower context, Kirby McInerney represented the whistleblower who received the largest CFTC whistleblower award ever and the second largest whistleblower award arising under the Dodd-Frank and IRS whistleblower programs. That whistleblower received nearly $200 million in connection with recoveries by the CFTC and other regulators of billions of dollars from global banks who were alleged to have manipulated benchmark interest rates to illegally enrich itself to the detriment of other market participants.