Cravath Puts Its Stamp on Antitrust World With Recent Wins

A firm with as much history as Cravath, Swaine & Moore tends to be modest even when it lands a major victory—say, one at the U.S. Supreme Court. But when it notches two seismic wins in a row, a bit of bragging seems natural.

The firm’s victories came in major antitrust cases for American Express and Time Warner. The firm, characteristically low profile, attributes the outcomes to its long-established way of lawyering.

“The firm has been in the antitrust space for a long time,” Evan R. Chesler, a 42-year firm veteran who argued the American Express case before the Supreme ...