Antitrust & Competition
Finding Solutions to Antitrust And Competition Issues Facing Established and Emerging Companies
Our work focuses on finding solutions to the myriad antitrust and competition issues confronting the world’s leading technology and life sciences companies.
Competition and antitrust laws around the world are rapidly evolving. Authorities are increasingly using a wide range of powers to investigate mergers, markets, cartels and contractual arrangements between competitors, suppliers and distributors, as well as alleged abuses of dominant market positions. As more regulatory regimes become established and as investigative powers and penalties become more severe, the risk of falling afoul of these complex laws has never been more acute.
We are nationally ranked leaders in the field, and companies can depend on our team’s knowledge of the latest and most important developments in antitrust and competition law.
- Extensive M&A and civil investigations practice before the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and State Attorneys General Offices, including several hundred HSR filings with FTC and DOJ sections responsible for technology and life science markets
- Excellent working relationship with key FTC and DOJ staffers in relevant areas
- Well-versed in issues, economics and arguments particularly relevant to technology deals
- Successfully navigating in-depth reviews to avoid second requests
- Extensive experience managing international merger notifications, including for clients such as Cisco Systems, Cray, OSIsoft, Symantec (now NortonLifeLock) and VeriSign
- Defending clients subject to in-depth merger and conduct investigations in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions
- Optimized in-firm IT environment to identify, access and produce information faster and more efficiently than other solutions
- Daily advice and counseling on the issues and business practices critical to technology industries, including R&D collaborations, patent pools and standard-setting, product interoperability, patent and copyright misuse, package licensing and bundling, marketing and distribution, and pricing and discrimination
- Extensive federal and state litigation experience at both trial and appellate levels, including civil and criminal government investigations; mergers; distribution programs; price-fixing; monopolization; and Robinson-Patman price discrimination claims
- Training and compliance programs, internal investigations and audits, document creation and retention policies
- Extensive M&A and civil investigations practice before the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and State Attorneys General Offices, including several hundred HSR filings with FTC and DOJ sections responsible for technology and life science markets
- Excellent working relationship with key FTC and DOJ staffers in relevant areas
- Well-versed in issues, economics and arguments particularly relevant to technology deals
- Successfully navigating in-depth reviews to avoid second requests
- Extensive experience managing international merger notifications, including for clients such as Cisco Systems, Cray, OSIsoft, Symantec (now NortonLifeLock) and VeriSign
- Defending clients subject to in-depth merger and conduct investigations in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions
- Optimized in-firm IT environment to identify, access and produce information faster and more efficiently than other solutions
- Daily advice and counseling on the issues and business practices critical to technology industries, including R&D collaborations, patent pools and standard-setting, product interoperability, patent and copyright misuse, package licensing and bundling, marketing and distribution, and pricing and discrimination
- Extensive federal and state litigation experience at both trial and appellate levels, including civil and criminal government investigations; mergers; distribution programs; price-fixing; monopolization; and Robinson-Patman price discrimination claims
- Training and compliance programs, internal investigations and audits, document creation and retention policies
