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Overview
Aigerim Saudabayeva is an associate in the Antitrust practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Her practice focuses on antitrust and competition law, with an emphasis on merger control, government investigations and cartel defense.
While in law school, Aigerim served as a stagiaire for Judge Nihoul at the European Union General Court in Luxembourg, interned with the International Section of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and served as the senior submissions editor for the Southern California Law Review.
Education
- Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, J.D., 2022
- Oriel College, University of Oxford, M. Phil. 2017
- Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A. 2015
Representations
- Companies in criminal investigations involving allegations of information exchange and price-fixing via algorithms.
- An executive in an international price-fixing cartel investigation.
- Worldpay in its $24.5 billion acquisition by Global Payments as part of a transformative three-way transaction.
- Take-Two Interactive Software, a leading player in interactive entertainment, in its $460 million acquisition of the Gearbox Entertainment.
- VMware, a leading virtualization software provider, in its $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom, a global technology leader semiconductor, data center hardware and infrastructure software solutions.
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a world-renowned healthcare provider and insurer, in its affiliation with Washington Health System.
- Florida Association of Realtors in connection with a Florida state class action alleging a conspiracy to fix buyer-broker commissions.
Matters may have been completed prior to joining Paul Hastings
Engagement & Publications
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- "United States: enforcement agencies display openness to negotiating and accepting remedies amid HSR growing pains", GCR, Co-Author (Nov. 11, 2025)