Ankur Kapoor

Ankur Kapoor is a partner at Constantine Cannon and has been at the firm since 2004, focusing on antitrust litigation and counseling.

Most recently, Ankur has been co-lead counsel on behalf of a certified class of video-game publishers in In re Valve Antitrust Litigation, pending in Seattle federal court, as well as a member of the team representing over 60 major corporations in their credit- and debit-card swipe-fee antitrust action against Visa and Mastercard.  Ankur was also lead counsel for All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (ANA) in a class action alleging price fixing of passenger airfares following a resolved Department of Justice investigation.  Over the years, Ankur has represented clients in various industries, including air transportation, automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceutical, consumer products, digital platforms, e-commerce, electronic payments, fashion, media, and telecommunications. 

In addition to his litigation work, Ankur is a prolific writer and speaker. He has published over 30 articles on issues of competition law and has given many Continuing Legal Education (CLE) presentations on competition law. He has also been widely quoted in the media on current competition-law issues, including in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News, Fox Business News, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Street, ComputerWorld, The New York Law Journal, Law360, and Bloomberg BNA. 

Ankur is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section. He currently serves on the Section Council, and previously served on the Advisory Board on Section Reserves. He served as Co-Chair of the Media and Technology Committee from 2015 to 2023 and on the Editorial Board of Antitrust Law Developments (7th ed., 2012). 

Ankur is a graduate of the New York University School of Law.  He holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he majored in Economics and minored in Computer Science. Ankur is ranked in Chambers U.S.A. 2024 for “Antitrust-Mostly Plaintiff” and in U.S. News Best Lawyers for Antitrust Law & Litigation since 2023. He has been named to Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who Legal: Competition – Future Leaders and to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list since 2014. 

Ankur is admitted to practice in New York State, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits.