Antitrust & Consumer Protection
Summary
Our success in antitrust and consumer protection is multi-faceted, and relies on the advanced skills across our legal practice teams – Business, Government, Litigation, and Administrative Law. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing clients from antitrust to price fixing, and more.
We are at the forefront of the field and, in turn, have been involved in some groundbreaking legislation. A few of our effective legal moments include:
- Business enterprises regarding mergers and acquisitions, including assuring compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976
- Manufacturers regarding geographic and market restrictions for their distributors and brokers
- Organizations regarding non-competition clauses for their key employees
- Challenged anti-competitive asset transfers from a monopoly to an unregulated affiliate
- Prevented illegal joint marketing of a regulated (monopoly) service with an unregulated service
- Negotiated and arbitrated interconnection agreements with incumbent providers
- Litigated the pricing of telecommunications and electric industry essential facilities