Denise Plunkett, Chair of Axinn’s Litigation practice, is a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience handling an impressive array of high-stakes commercial disputes and high-profile antitrust cases. Denise has served as lead trial counsel in well over a dozen jury trials of varying types. She has successfully represented MasterCard in some of its most significant antitrust cases, including challenges to its currency conversion and chargeback practices, and recently won a federal jury trial concerning the termination of a Mastercard membership. Her diverse litigation and counseling practice includes trials and appearances in numerous federal and state courts, international and AAA arbitrations, advocacy before the FTC Bureau of Competition, and appellate and other post-judgment representations.