Antitrust

Our antitrust lawyers represent clients in both civil and criminal litigation, agency investigations, administrative actions, and related matters. We have defended clients in investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, civil and criminal investigations by the Department of Justice, state investigations and proceedings, and private litigation involving issues of monopolization, price discrimination and restraint of trade. We have helped clients with Hart-Scott-Rodino filings in connection with mergers and acquisitions. We have also counseled clients on antitrust matters involving Sherman Act, Clayton Act and Robinson Patman Act issues, as well as a broad range of distribution questions involving franchising, pricing, refusals to deal and terminations.

We have helped clients in the health care industry with issues such as mergers, strategic alliances and other arrangements among competitors in the health care field. As part of our counseling services, we have developed a Web-based antitrust compliance program which includes an antitrust compliance policy manual, model forms, compliance presentation programs, training, tests and certifications. This comprehensive program is available in hard copy, as well as on disk and CD in an interactive format that allows clients of all sizes to distribute the program and required training to individual employees directly or via an intranet system.