Antitrust Law
Our experienced antitrust practitioners can help you avoid antitrust entanglements by:
- Training employees on how to avoid collusion
- Helping you design appropriate distribution systems for your products
- Assist in devising marketing and promotion programs to enhance sales and
- Counseling your company with respect to proposed acquisitions or divestitures
In litigation, we can help ensure that you get the best defense possible – or the maximum redress to which you are entitled.
Counseling
It is always better to avoid problems by starting off on the right foot, as opposed to trying to fix a problem after it occurs. Antitrust laws are particularly tricky, but we assist our business clients to avoid expensive entanglements by providing timely, practical, and cost-effective advice at the outset of new business or marketing ventures.
Compliance Services
We assist in establishing training programs and policies for employees in antitrust-sensitive roles (such as sales and marketing). We have had experience with delivering training to thousands of employees via concise, plain-language materials that relate antitrust rules to the employees’ jobs. In fact, most employees don’t even realize that they are getting legal training.
Investigations
We can quickly examine allegations of possible wrongdoing, or audit compliance with company policies.
Counseling
It is impossible to predict every type of question that may arise, so we specialize in learning your business, enabling us, in many cases, to provide prompt answers to questions about the antitrust sensitivity of a given practice.
Antitrust Policies
We can assist companies in developing policies and practices to guide sales and marketing activities while reducing potential antitrust exposure.
Antitrust Litigation
We have significant experience defending companies in federal and state courts and administrative agencies, as well as self-regulatory agencies. In disputes between private parties, we have recovered millions of dollars for our clients – and have helped avoid liability when innocent actions have been attacked unjustly.
Representative cases include:
Price Fixing
We assist victims of price fixing in recovering their damages by working closely with prosecutors, and initiating private actions under the Sherman Act and state antitrust laws.
Dealer Termination
We can assist in resolving disputes between manufacturers and dealers, distributors or franchisees. Although litigation may be necessary in some cases, it may be possible to use alternative dispute resolution tools (such as arbitration or mediation) to resolve disputes in a faster, more cost effective manner.
General Commercial Litigation
Assisting in finding an antitrust remedy or defending an antitrust claim that is part of a breach of contract, business fraud, or on other types of commercial disputes.
Mergers
Helping companies secure approval of mergers when reviewed by the FTC, Department of Justice or a state attorney general.