Clients seek our counsel and litigation assistance on the entire range of antitrust, competition, and trade regulation issues. Lawyers working in this area have served in senior positions with and have experience before federal antitrust enforcement agencies, as well as the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Clients involved in mergers and acquisitions come to us for premerger analysis of those transactions and assistance with the preparation and filing of Pre-merger Notification and Report Forms under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. We have represented clients in merger investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and have been retained to perform analyses of antitrust issues related to the formation and operation of production and research and development joint ventures.

In addition, the Antitrust Group provides counseling and undertakes litigation concerning allegations of monopolization and attempted monopolization (including predatory pricing, refusals to deal, and product bundling), resale restrictions (including pricing and customer and territorial restraints), price discrimination and arrangements among members of the same industry (including price-fixing, bid-rigging, group boycotts and information-sharing).

Clients receive advice concerning patent/antitrust issues and antitrust considerations in intellectual property licensing arrangements. We also assist clients in the development and implementation of antitrust compliance programs.